In South Dakota I owned and operated restaurants at the same time I was serving various positions in education. It's ironic that I catered the Archbishop's Episcopal Ordination in 1988: 5000 box lunches, a dinner for 600, and a reception for 400. I'm glad not to be doing that in Philadelphia!
Through a series of circumstances I worked with then Bishop Charles in Catholic schools. We scooted around Rapid City in my Honda, eating at McDonalds, and raising money for a new high school, which opened in 1991. I then served as Superintendent until he left to serve in the Archdiocese of Denver.
In 2001 , I came to Denver to serve as an Associate Superintendent and in a few years became Superintendent. Given this 20-plus year history with the Archbishop as friend and in service to the Church, the announcement--although not entirely unexpected--was very bittersweet. The bitter is that I will no longer be serving this wonderful and great man in his courageous and tireless ministry; the sweet is that my wife and I will always remain with him in friendship, and I think he is perfect for the Church in Philadelphia, led there through the Holy Spirit.
He is going there in the midst of a horrendous child sex abuse scandal. If you read the first 6 pages of the Grand Jury report at http://bit.ly/pgjr11, you can see the horrific things that these priests did to children, and you can see how the diocese concealed it. The blatant, arrogant disregard for child safety that still continues is unimaginable.
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