[Magdalen] Bishop, please resign

[Grace Cangialosi]

Actually, Heather, I think she could get insurance under COBRA for 18 months. I had to do that at one point.

> On Jan 29, 2015, at 1:48 PM, H Angus <hangus at ctcn.net> wrote:
> 
> "the cowardly
> and vaguely pitiful attempt to hold onto the shreds of a once-successful
> individual life?"
> 
> As other USA people have said, she's doubtless trying to hang on to her health insurance, which is tied to employment here. It certainly shouldn't be, but it is.
> 
> Without health insurance, she'd just have to show up at AA meetings like any ordinary schlub rather than go to an expensive-looking rehab center.
> 
> I doubt she had much of a successful life if, as it appears, her alcoholism is very long-term. Behavior "this anti-social" does indeed come with long-term addiction, but it doesn't always result in the death of an innocent person, nor is the perpetrator generally in such a highly visible office. Selfish, self-serving behavior is standard for alcoholics, as any of my 12-step friends are perfectly frank about saying.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sally Davies" <sally.davies at gmail.com>
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 1:36:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Bishop, please resign
> 
> I know it's easy to say from far, far away but I'm thinking that if this
> were my Diocese I would be less concerned with her bad behaviour and more
> worried about the system that actually picked this very psychologically and
> morally challenged individual to be a Bishop in the first place. When you
> think how hard it can be to be selected for priestly ordination, and from
> there to be elected Bishop...?
> 
> Behaviour this antisocial does not come out of nowhere nor is it a
> temporary aberration. It's not even a given for people who have addictions.
> 
> There has got to be something VERY wrong with the process and that is
> surely of more concern in the bigger scheme of things, than the cowardly
> and vaguely pitiful attempt to hold onto the shreds of a once-successful
> individual life?
> 
> As to the question of permanence, I sincerely hope it isn't true "once a
> Bishop always a Bishop". To be a priest is perhaps something different but
> a Bishop is a functionary within a structure and if not in that structure,
> cannot have a function. At least I hope not because there have been some
> truly awful Bishops in our part of the world, far worse than Cook - Kunonga
> in Zimbabwe comes to mind!!
> 
> Sally D
> 
> On Thursday, 29 January 2015, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Much as I bear most bishops scant love and while I acknowledge that Bp
>> Cook is not part of my local picture, nonetheless I cannot stand in
>> judgement.   My mother would have said, "The mills of the gods grind
>> slowly, but they grind exceeding fine."   I think that most of us would not
>> enjoy being the target of such judgement and I can be pretty darn sure that
>> she is already feeling the fires of hell and doesn't need more.  But that's
>> me.
>> 
>> Marion, a pilgrim (soft on crime and a foe of our vengeful ways) ... today
>> my sail I lift ....
>