PATHETIC

By Tim Rohr

A bishop is a father to his priests and the priests are his sons. 

In fact, the bishop-priest relationship is even more a father-son relationship than the biological father-son because whereas our children can grow up and remove themselves from our authority after a certain age, a priest, and in this case a diocesan priest, makes a Promise of Obedience to his bishop-father for life or at least until a priest is released from that promise by an official act (such as excardination). 

Imagine your son dying. You show up for the funeral but don't bother to attend the burial. Instead you have lunch with friends and let others bury him.

This is what Archbishop Jimenez did. After the funeral, he enjoyed lunch at a nearby restaurant while he let others bury his son, Fr. Michael Crisostomo.

Pathetic.

One wonders what Fr. Mike did to deserve to be treated this way, both in the final months of his life and now in death.