Usually this would be a "so what" event, but this was given significance by the presence of one of the chief engineers of the sexual abuse cover-up and one of the resisters of the investigation into the murder of Sister Margaret, namely, the Vicar General of the Diocese of Toledo, Fr. Michael Billian. He's the main celebrant.
So, in response I put up a small protest: I took my sign with the pic of Sister Margaret and placed in the front yard next to the always present large sign demanding healing and justice for the abuse victims.
I don't expect much of response from those concerned - though a couple of elderly dressed up ladies did briefly stop to a gawk for a moment.
Fr. Billian really shouldn't be in the office he holds nor does he have the right to call himself the "Very Reverend" either. Given what's he done in the sexual abuse cover-up and the cover-up of Sister's murder (and that's not addressing the number of the women whose heart he's broken by abusing them via an unequal relationship) it would be better if he'd be a real man; publicly own up to all he's done; resign his diocesan office and ask the bishop to assign him to some very impoverished third world religious order where he can work out his penance for the rest of his life by laboring way out in the bush area of some remote region of the world.
But I know that'll only happen in my dreams. So, I protest where I can and when I can.
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