How fitting that this story broke within the octave of Good Shepherd Sunday!
I'm not the first to observe that the clerical caste have turned sheep-herding in the Catholic Church into mutton-farming. There is no need for a shepherd (in Latin, pastor) unless the sheep range free and the shepherd ranges among them, protecting them from harm and rescuing them they fall into danger. When the sheep are penned up, you need only the mutton-farmer who stays in the big house and works on his spreadsheets.
Pope Francis speaks in similar terms when he says that pastors should have the smell of the sheep about them.
Mutton-farming is corrupt.
Most Reverend Hoeppner sounds like a mutton-farmer, to his great shame and to great harm to the flock he is called to shepherd.