Tuesday, June 18, 2002
More on the Bishops
Karen Marie Knapp, who saw much more of the Bishop's conference than I could hear, tells me that when the motion (for episcopal pennance) was reintroduced, that the bishops did agree to a day of fasting and abstinance in reparation for their faults and set the date as August 14.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they're doing that much. But do the math, this is 1/270th of the nine months of pennance that Abp. Flores proposed.
While I'm not a moral theologian, and I don't know how to quantify pennance, it seems to me that a single day of fasting fails to address the gravity of the bishops' failure and complicity in this terrible scandal.
