Regarding: "A deacon candidate for a rural Minnesota diocese sued his bishop this week on grounds of blackmail and coercion after the prelate allegedly threatened his ordination if he didn't renounce a prior revelation of sexual abuse by the diocese's former vicar general."
- Accepting that this story has merit, then this is the first verifiable evidence in the US that ordination is treated as commodity by the episcopacy., e.g., this for that.
- The civil authorities should seize the chancery's files and records and archives, and insist that the Apostolic Delegation and the Holy See submit all records on this bishop and the diocese to the civil authorities involved in this.
- Fortunately Trump's executive order regarding involvement of churches in political matters has made less strict the separation of state from church. So, the state should be able to retrieve church records here in the US and in the Holy See (which in these matters is not the Vatican City State).