Bishop Zubic DID go to prosecutors in 2013

I am so glad that Bishop Zubic went to the authorities and demanded that criminal charges be filed.

I refer, of course, to the April 2013 event ("the spring fine arts parade") in which student Katherine B. O’Connor, 19, of Pittsburgh, dressed the upper half of her body as a Pope, and left the lower half of her body naked except for some topiary work in the sign of a cross. As she marched, she handed out condoms.

Bishop Zubic, who knows a wrong thing when he sees it, went to the head of CMU and insisted that criminal charges be pressed against the woman. She was arrested.

The student eventually made a deal with prosecutors, agreeing to perform 80 hours of community service work in exchange for the prosecutor dropping charges. A conviction would have meant she'd have to register as a sex offender.

I remember at the time thinking: When did Jesus ever go to a prosecutor and demand that charges should be filed? Didn't He say, "let you who is without sin throw the first pitch?" So why is this Bishop acting like this?

But with a bit of hindsight and the recent release of the PA Grand Jury report, I can see that Bishop Zubic was adhering to the same consistent standard that is still in use:

• young women challenging the patriarchy must be prosecuted and kept in their place
• no church officials (men) should be prosecuted; especially not for raping altar boys.