By Father Raymond J. de Souza, EWTN News - Msgr. Burrill’s resignation from his senior post at the USCCB means that, in effect, the USCCB is finished with him... It is Msgr. Burrill’s ordinary, Bishop William Callahan of Lacrosse, Wisconsin, who will have to decide now what investigation and possible penalties, if any, are administered.
Bishop Callahan finds himself in an extremely delicate position. He recently removed Father James Altman... The issue was Father Altman’s outspoken condemnation of the Democratic Party and his aggressive comments against the U.S. episcopate, whom he has called a “brood of vipers.”