As of today, WHY IS A LAY PERSON DOING THIS has received 1,863 views, many times more than any other recent post. It has also generated 31 comments, also many times more than any recent post.
What hasn't happened, as of today, is an explanation from Archbishop Ryan Jimenez.
Now, on a personal level, I really don't care. It's not that big of a deal to me. Liturgical abuses, theological abuses, religious abuses, child abuses, none of that is new in this archdiocese. In fact, all are quite common. However, the fact that the Archbishop has remained silent about the incident smacks of the secrecy we suffered through with the last administration.
If this particular abuse - as shown in the aforesaid post - had occurred without approval from anyone in the chancery, then we would have had a statement by now because it would have been easy to make. It would have been something to the effect of:
"We apologize for the abuse of the Blessed Sacrament at Bishop Baumgartner Memorial School on February 11, 2025. The abuse occurred without our knowledge or approval and we have taken steps to ensure that it doesn't happen again."
But the fact that there has been no such statement nearly one month later, and given the massive attention to the incident on this blog, there are only two other possibilities:
1. The incident WAS approved by a "higher-up," (someone in the chancery - maybe even the archbishop), and the "higher-ups" have been scrambling to come up with a story to protect their own; or
2. The incident WAS approved, as set forth in No. 1, and the "higher-ups" are hiding and waiting for the story to go away.
Hiding, waiting, lying, scrambling, deflecting, secrecy...all of that - we have seen too many times before - from the arrest of a certain Neocat priest at an Agat beach in 2015 and his mysterious disappearance soon after, to the sudden disappearance of Apuron himself the night after his first accuser came forward.
This measly little incident with a layman playing priest at a school event is nothing compared to the other scandals we have suffered through, but it is a scandal nonetheless. And the silence is making the scandal bigger by the day. In fact, the SILENCE is the SCANDAL.
So, just like the old days when we waited and waited on "the chancery" to comment on other mysteries (and got only lies or nothing at all), we're going to start a count up counter and see how long it takes. We'll put the counter in the right side bar as well.
Tick, tick, tick.
NOTE: The counter was removed after an explanation was provided by Archbishop Jimenez on March 11, 2025
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