Yes I lived in your diocese for a very long time. I’m familiar with your Bishop’s reputation for a top-down style. He seems to have a particular affinity for writing letters & insisting they be read from the pulpit, and for publicizing problems. Comes off as a bit intense, perhaps, esp in current times when we expect men to be less autho…
Yes I lived in your diocese for a very long time. I’m familiar with your Bishop’s reputation for a top-down style. He seems to have a particular affinity for writing letters & insisting they be read from the pulpit, and for publicizing problems. Comes off as a bit intense, perhaps, esp in current times when we expect men to be less authorian and more mellow. But it still doesn’t make the nuns right to divest themselves of Olson’s authority. I don’t deny they should do *something*; I really think this was the wrong something.
Yes I lived in your diocese for a very long time. I’m familiar with your Bishop’s reputation for a top-down style. He seems to have a particular affinity for writing letters & insisting they be read from the pulpit, and for publicizing problems. Comes off as a bit intense, perhaps, esp in current times when we expect men to be less authorian and more mellow. But it still doesn’t make the nuns right to divest themselves of Olson’s authority. I don’t deny they should do *something*; I really think this was the wrong something.