I AM TRYING TO UNDERSTAND

I am trying to understand this.

Father Paul Kalchick burns a flag, owned by the parish of which he is the Pastor.  It was relegated to a storage room for decades, but was once a symbol of the openness of the Chicago Catholic Church to the homosexual community during the tenure of Cardinal Bernardin.

So Father Kalchik announces he will publicly burn the flag during a special ceremony for that purpose.

Cardinal Cupich is so outraged that he orders the Pastor not to proceed with destroying what the Pastor finds to be a morally objectionable piece of parish property.

Father Kalchik decides to proceed with the flag burning, but in a more private setting with members of the parish leadership in attendance.

Immediately (without affording the Pastor the exercise of his canonical rights) Cardinal Cupich responds by removing Father Kalchik from his Office as Pastor, insisting that he undergo psychiatric evaluation.  Two Archdiocesan Clergymen deliver the Cardinal’s orders under threat that Father Kalchik will be arrested for criminal trespass if he remains on duty as Pastor (the threats being witnessed by parishioners during the confrontation).

Admitting that I glossed over bits and pieces of this incident, I contend that this is pretty much what has occurred.

Now I juxtapose this incident with that of two homosexual Priests (serving in the Archdiocese of Chicago) arrested in Miami, Florida for engaging in oral sex in the front of a car with clear windows on a sunny day, on a sunny street, in view of public passers by who reported the matter to police officers.

One of the Priests arrested is a Judge appointed to the Archdiocesan Marriage Tribunal in Chicago, thus a member of the Cardinal's administrative staff.

So far, not a word whatsoever from the Cardinal.

I am trying to understand this.

What is happening in Chicago and elsewhere in our Church these days?