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Well, at a minimum, it's one thing to say "I won't say what happened.", and it's another to say "I simply fell." if that is not in fact what accounts for the extensive injuries. The first is a non-comment, the second would be a lie.
Could he be protecting the seal of confession, perhaps?
How, pray tell?
Or, possibly, he's the victim of blackmail, not vis-a-vis some embarrassing action of his but rather through the threat of violence against someone in the community. Not saying that's likely, just that it is a possibility if he didn't really fall down stairs. And Dr. Peter's question is hard to answer -- even if the person breaks into the house, beats the Bishop, and then confesses it, doesn't the seal not apply because His Excellency learned about the beating (by experiencing it) prior to hearing it in confession? How does that work?
Nobody thinks Msgr. Myriel was too nice to Jean Valjean.
I would encourage the benefit of the doubt.
St. Padre Pio and St. John Vianney used to be beaten by the devil. Satan probably would have been happy to throw them down the stairs if possible...
Dear Marie,
Interesting thought.
It wouldn't be a lie if the fall is what let the supposed perpetrator catch him. Or if he simply fell down the stairs face first while going up.
Or was secretly training for the Vatican's first boxing team, and was still a little out of it when having to evade the topic. I think his continuing trouble with evasion is logically consistent.
"As a side note, Bishop Pelotte is the first American-Indian bishop"
That is what CNS said, too. But Pelotte was made bishop in 1990 and Chaput was made a bishop in 1988. And in the USCCB press release on Chaput from 1997, it said that he (Chaput) was the second American Indian ordained bishop. That would make Pelotte third.
Which makes me wonder who, in the estimation of the USCCB, was the first American Indian bishop?
WAC
On Bishop Pelotte being the first American Indian bishop, Thomas is right, at least according to catholic-hierarchy.org. His Excellency was ordained to the episcopacy in 1986 as Gallup's coadjutor. He didn't become the sole bishop until 1990.
Thanks for the clarification, Nathan. I took that datum from one of the reports I linked in the post.
don’t normally respond to news stories but the story about Bishop Pelotte sounds exactly like my father’s illness. He suffered from Lewy-Body Dementia or
Parksinson’s Dementia. He has a sister that is beginning to see people in her house. My father was brilliant and his condition varied from minute to minute
or day to day. He had vivid dreams and they were as real to him as life. He also made a police report about cult members (3 feet tall) in his house. These patients only see people or animals. My dear father passed away in March. I miss our talks so much, even if they were not my reality. My father also suffered from falls and blood pressure fluctuates as in Shy-Drager. It is hard to see a story like this, it could have easily have been about my father and these patients are aware that things are not right. There is no cure and most medication tends to make it worse. It is a cruel disease that worsens with time. My father suffered from RBD for 15 years before he started seeing things.
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