Money and Misconduct

By Paul Cromidas

(This article/letter was sent to The National Herald, the Greek-American newspaper based in New York. The paper asked for documentation about the priests’ convictions noted in the article. This was supplied, but the paper chose not to publish the article. P.C.)

The appearance in your February 5 issue of a letter from Metropolitan Isaiah, of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and a news report from Theodore Kalmoukos, calls for a commentary.

The Metropolitan (Bishop) gave one of his periodic preachments in print, this one mostly about money, and Mr. Kalmoukos reported yet another story about fund shortages in the Greek archdiocese and, in this case, about their possible relationship to the financial settlements for sexual misconduct. Are there some connections here? I think so.