Quotations of Bishop John T. Steinbock to the parishioners of Fr. Lastiri. In “Valley Priest Removed from Church: Merced's Lastiri Allegedly Solicited Men on Intemet,” By Amy White, The Modesto Bee. Friday, July 16, 2004, 10: 00 A. http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/8855045p-9743608c.html
From the Amy Welborne web log that references the Indianapolis Star.http://www.indystar.com/articles/6/149839-2976-009.html, May 26, 2004, “Public Indecency Indy Priest Might be Assigned to Parishes,” “In a letter to members of the three parishes. Archbisop Daniel M. Buechlein emphasizes that no final decision has been made on the appointment of the Rev. Ronald M. Ashmore as administrator and sacramental minister of the churches…Buechlein said he wanted comments from the parishioners to be collected by the parish councils, which are to meet today with two priests involved in the staffing issue. The archbishop is in Rome for a meeting with Pope John Paul II; Buechlein said in the letter that he hopes to make a final decision in early June.”
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“Archbishop William Levada of San Francisco will oversee the Santa Rosa Diocese until a new bishop is appointed. Levada issued a statement saying Pope John Paul II on Wednesday 21 July 1999 accepted the bishop's resignation, finishing a process that was begun by Ziemann in April. The archbishop described himself as a lifelong friend of Ziemann's and said he joined ‘friends throughout California and beyond in thanking him for the energy and gifts he has shared far and wide. Our prayers and good wishes go with him’. “Bishop Ziemann Quits: Resignation Stuns Close Associates.” Thursday. July 22,1999. Mike Geniella The Press Democrathttp://www.pressdemocrat.com/evergreen/diocese/072299_quits.html
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By ThomasJudy L.The Kansas City Star: 01/29/00 22: 15. Quotations from Bishop Raymond J. Boland of the Diocese of Kansas City-Si. Joseph.
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Diogenes: CWR 9/15/04. “sweet dreams: Last night's bedtime reading was the NCCB Membership Directory for the year 2000. Page 215 makes mention of (former) bishops Kendrick Williams and Joseph Hart, who have the distinction of being Dash-2 (”because of health or other grave reason”) retirees. In both cases, the other grave reasons were boys. One other thing: both Williams and Hart were both members of the NCCB's Standing Committee for the Selection of Bishops. Probably just a coincidence.”
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“High AIDS Toll Among Priests Has Been Obscured. Paper Says,” Washington Post (01/31/00) P. A4 “According to the Kansas City Star newspaper. AIDS has killed hundreds of American Roman Catholic priests since the mid-1980s. The newspaper revealed that the death rate for priests who have AIDS is over four times the general population's rate. While the death certificates of priests may list other causes of death besides AIDS, Bishop Raymond Boland and other priests spoke that they knew of priests with AIDS and of those who died from AIDS-related illnesses. The case of Bishop Emerson J. Moore who went to Minnesota in 1995 shows that he died from AIDS.”
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Christopher Schiavone & Janice Page 12/8/2002. “Broken Vows” The Boston Globe. “But most of us were at Southdown for other reasons (than pederasty), which our regimen of group therapy, spiritual direction, and personal counseling endeavored to address in psychologically sound though morally neutral ways. A gay men's support group met weekly. For many of us, it was the first lime we had publicly identified ourselves as gay. Others in the community were also known to have been homosexually attracted or active, but they eschewed the support group, often out of fear. That's how it was at Southdown – each man and woman was permitted to pursue a path to wellness in a way and at a pace that seemed most natural. ” http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories3/120802_schiavone.htm
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HoVanessa (2004) “Local Archbishop a Man of Drive and Mystery.”Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Tuesday. October 12,2004, “While the rest of the country was reeling from war protests in the 1960s. Alex Brunett was a young academic dean stirring up his own protest at a Roman Catholic seminary in Michigan. ”As he tells it, his students included a ‘large colony of homosexual people’ who liked to go to gay bars at night. This upset Brunett so much that he complained loudly to his archbishop and tried to block the ordination of some students. In return. he was deemed ‘counterproductive’, booted out and sent back to parish work. “It was a humbling time for the future archbishop of Seattle, but 40 years later, the Most Rev. Alexander J. Brunett is feeling a twinge of vindication. ”In an interview with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, he said many of the country's clergy sex-abuse cases involve priests ordained in the '60s, the same time he was not only fighting open homosexuality at his school, but drugs and hippie subculture. too.” http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/l94798_brunett12.html
FordMichael (1999). “Wounded Prophet: A Portrait of Henri J. M. Nouwen,”New York: Doubleday. A sympathetic account of the life of Nouwen. See ch 17 “Icons” for Nouwen's correspondence with homosexual artist and ex-Franciscan monk, R. Lentz.
