What do you have to say for yourself ?
Conan O'Brien is not funny.
Jason, Your comment, in my opinion, is true. I do not find Conan very funny. However, I must ask---what does this opinion have to do with his stalking?
Initial reports make it sound like the priest is troubled and in need of help and prayers.
The greatest stalker ever is in the movie Blades of Glory, where the crazy male fan asks the really sissy-male ice skater, "Did you get that cup of my blood I sent you?"
And please, please, let this not be true.
Don't know this man, but we've all seen him. He's the slightly disturbed, poorly selected, poorly trained, poorly supervised, poorly supported priest that is not uncommon these days, especially in Archbishop Sean's diocese.
Pray he gets help before he really freaks out.
Why is it too way too much to hope that this is a bad joke gone terribly wrong with inaccurate reporting? Ahh Boston....
"He's the slightly disturbed, poorly selected, poorly trained, poorly supervised, poorly supported priest that is not uncommon these days" I am loathe to admit it, but there is some truth to this in any number of diocese. It just blackens the eye of clerical reputation further still...
Never had these problems before Vatican 2!!!!
Joachim Niemann, is that because there was no late night television back then? I seem to recall my local stations signed off at midnight in those days.Tom
True, no late night television.
True, Bishop Fulton Sheen on at prime time and watched by millions, way back when...gee, what big event happened between now and then? Hmmmm.
That event would be Super Bowl XX
what the hell
Conan O'Brien is the best he could do? There are so many other, worthier, people to stalk.
hmmmmm, apparently on the list of people he must of started at the bottom.
Yes, the padre's fellow Harvard man, Conan. What a strange choice to stalk.
Each stalker to his own taste.
I like the last line saying that a telephone message to his church was not immediately returned. When it was , imagine them saying, "No, Father can't come to the hospital to give Last Rites at this time. He is stalking Conan O'Brien."
What the hell?
That's just sad. I think Tom is right - it sounds like this priest desperately needs prayers and professional help.
Typical of the poorly educated wac-jobs from harvard
Cue the Twilight Zone theme...
Do you think sometimes that Satan has a committee (we all know there are committee meetings in hell) that sits around thinking up temptations and ways to embarass the Church?
"Hmmmmm - I know! I could try to get this priest to start...ummmm molesting kids!"
"No, no. Already done. How about stealing money from the cemetery fund?"
"mmmm, did that too."
"Liturgical abuse?"
"That's soooo 80's."
"Hey guys, how about getting a priest to stalk a late night talk show host!?
"Sheesh! How absurd - where would we even find one that moronic. I mean yeah, formation has slipped a bit since the "old days" but you couldn't get one of these guys to do something that stupid."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah."
"I'll bet you two icecubes and a window fan I can get one to do it."
"You're on!"
Couldn't he stalk Hugo Chavez instead?
Come now, certainly there have been many priests who went off their rocker after being ordained. It does not have to do with pre-/post-Vatican II. I agree that after Vatican II the formation in many places has gone to pot, and they accept candidates they would not have previously accepted. But some people develop psychiatric problems later in life, for totally random reasons or no reason at all...some people just lose it, and start doing strange things. Even if he wasn't a paragon of priestly duty before going off the deep end, he (and the rest of our priests) deserve our prayers.
OH, THE HUGE MANATEE! go check out Conan's own site hornymanatee.com, you'll see what I mean.
The jabs at Cardinal Sean are stupid, to say the least.
Clearly this man is deranged and needs our prayers.
As it happens, I live in the parish Fr. David served most recently. Fwiw, the newspapers say that he met O'Brien at a fundraising event for a soup kitchen in Lawrence, MA, run by a priest who was O'Brien's Harvard roommate.
Fr. David is a convert to the Faith, a kind and intelligent young priest ordained in 2001, and I can only suppose that he is suffering some sort of illness now. Oremus.
I read somewhere that the priest and Conan had been at Harvard at the same time. Maybe it is about something that happened back then.
Thomas:
Cardinal Sean, in a recent blog, mentioned his FIRST visit of the year to the seminary......in October! It seems Boston's young seminarians are not a great priority! Selling St John's Seminary property to BC and potentially casting the seminarians in with the liberal Jesuits at shared classes sounds problematic but....it is very important to get those expensive abuse claims tucked away!
The opinion seems to be held that seminarians are better off mixing with the secular world while studying for the priesthood. This is perfect for forming 'secular' priests but we need holy, Christ-centered priests more than ever and this, IMHO, can only be achieved in strict, prayerful, almost monastic removal from worldly distraction to foster discernment and give us leaders of a true renewal.
There are high functional disorders which are personality disorders wherein the person can function in a job sometimes excellently without being noticed as needing help until a breakdown like this and then they are noticed. It also means they can get by testing so as to enter the seminary etc.
Low functional disorders are obvious quickly to other people around such persons and such people have difficulty holding a job or getting through a vetting process etc.
Why has God brought this man to our attention? Prayer only.
It seems he is most certainly suffering from something. Leaving your parish responsibilities to travel to NYC or, unbelievebly, to Italy speaks volumes, even if he was not stalking someone.
Like most of us, Fr. David has someone he reports to, probably the Chancellor of the Boston Diocese. It is this person's responsibility to guide, train, oversee and councel young priests, especially when they are pastors. The Boston Diocese has not run a tight ship for some time and the results continue to be quite obvious. It dosen't have to be that way. It simply calls for 'some' degree of accountability upon those at the top.
He should be made Bishop of Rochester.
Ajemian, Whispers in the Logia reports, was a fellow Harvard man, born an Anglican and recieved into the Catholic Church in 1995. Ordained a priest in 2001.
Unless he was already in the Anglican seminary... Well how odd is it that a man can be ordained within 6 years of reception into the faith? Was he accepted into the seminary immediately upon his conversion?
A story in the Worcester paper has some interesting details.
Fr. Ajemian attended the second-career seminary (Bl. John XXIII), which has a four-year program. That implies he entered the seminary about two years after his reception: that's not too unusual.
Perhaps it is worth reconsidering. In the local diocese reverts/concerts cannot apply to the deaconal formation program without having been a member in good standing of a particular parish for 5 years.
Well, I had to stop watching Conan years ago, when he started with that "masturbating Bear" shitska. Which was totally un-funny anyway.
So to the stalker?? STALK AWAY!
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