Chaput rebukes inquiry panel

Archbishop Chaput and others have called into question certain things of the National Review Board. For instance, he suggested the group has overstepped its bounds and issued "implicit threats."
Bishop Bruskewitz had made his opinions known some time ago.

In an April 2 letter to Burke, Chaput and Gomez wrote that her letter "assumes the worst motives on the part of the bishops, despite the progress that has already been made. Your language is designed to offend and contains implicit threats that are, to put it mildly, inappropriate for anyone of your professional stature."

The Denver prelates noted the Dallas charter does not require an annual audit "and the expense, staff and structures that would involve." They suggested conducting one every three or four years instead.

"It is not the (lay review board's) duty to interpret the Charter," the letter says. "The (board) is an important advisory body at the service of the bishops. It does not and cannot have supervisory authority."

But this is not all. Some time ago, Kathleen McChesney, executive director of the USCCB's National Office of Child and Youth Protection, indicated that they needed to audit some 19,000 parishes as well. Sounds like a lifetime career! And I have not yet touched on the promotion of 'sexual awareness' programs for children!

Denver Post article here.