{"id":7567,"date":"2004-04-02T09:15:36","date_gmt":"2004-04-02T09:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/peoria_madness.html"},"modified":"2004-04-02T09:15:36","modified_gmt":"2004-04-02T09:15:36","slug":"peoria_madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/peoria_madness.html","title":{"rendered":"Peoria Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a big stew going on in the Diocese of Peoria about the dismissal of a long-time Catholic school teacher and coach. The diocese has been not terrifically specific in its public statements about the reasons, citing things like inadequate enforcement of discipline and insubordination. I really don’t care about that, although perhaps I should. What I’m interested in is the fall-out, which has taken the form of protests this week, which Bishop Jenky finally commented on, saying stop the blasphemy at the protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was Jenky’s first public comments since protests began Monday over the firing of Notre Dame High School dean and coach Cindy Clark.<\/p>\n

His statement came after protesters at a Wednesday night demonstration outside St. Mary’s Cathedral adapted parts of Catholic prayers for chants in support of Clark. A few protesters also repeatedly knocked on the door and rang the doorbell at Jenky’s nearby residence<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

.<\/p>\n

Now here’s what I don’t understand, and perhaps journalists out there can explain this to me. In this article, the offending adapted prayer parts are not specified. Why not? I thought detail was the core of good writing.<\/p>\n

Anyway, in case you’re interested here’s a little television news story with the content:<\/a><\/p>\n

On Thursday night demonstrators shouted, ”Hail Mary full of grace, what’s the meaning of this disgrace?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What is frustrating and puzzling about all of this, as was the case in the Cincinnati principal who was fired (and rehired)…is that the reasons are never spilled out. I guess there are legal reasons for this – there must be – but I still don’t get it. I remember that in the Cincinatti case, the principal gave his permission for the pastor to release the details of his objections – did that ever happen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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