In response to a request for the release of the task force's report on the school closings by Good Shepherd School, interim superintendent Sr. Janice Morgan denies access, citing it as for "internal use only." (Click the image to the left to view the letter.)Task force moderator Kent Gardner, Ph.D., has also recommended the report not be released (yet he's recently been named as a judge for a community ethics award -- see the story here).
Considering that the task force's report is responsible for the shuttering of 14 schools, layoffs of 200 teachers and staff, and displacement of nearly 2,000 students, doesn't the Diocese owe the community a full accounting of the process and recommendations? What exactly is the Diocese trying to cover up?
Share your thoughts by contacting the Diocese directly.
3 comments:
As far as I'm concerned, "Internal use only" means internal to the Diocese. Are they saying we are not part of the Diocese now? Are they afraid to show us how they allocated the expenses of the system? If they have such complete faith in their report they shouldn't be afraid to release it. Obviously they had their own agenda in closing the schools and are afraid of the reaction they will receive if it gets out.
I certainly agree that we should contact the Diocese to hold them accountable for providing the information to us, but I'm not hopeful that we will get anywhere. I called the Diocese to speak with someone about a separate issue and found that I needed to call every day, sometimes several times per day and it still took 3 weeks for a reply.
We already know the report is based on inaccurate assumptions and false information. I would be more interested in a full financial audit of the DOR. If they were spending money collected for the schools for other purposes (the cathedral, pedophile lawsuits, etc...), the IRS should check it out.
Catholic World News reported today that half the priests in Belleville, Illinois are banding together to take action against their bishop after an order of nuns wrote a letter to Archbishop Pietro Sambi requesting he intervene due to misuse of funds and lack of communication with the priests by the bishop. They claim the clergy and parishioners of the diocese are in "grave distress". I wish the clergy in our diocese would stick up for us in this manner, as we are in similar distress.
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