Fr. Haley's Tribunal: Less Transparent than the Dictatorship of Iran!

Fr. Hugh Monmonier on left and Fr. James Haley on right after
our 25th wedding anniversary Mass at St. Anselms Abbey in 1994.

Reading the front page of the Washington Post today, my husband pointed out an article with this headline, Verdict, but no details, in Iran's trial of Post reporter.  "You should write an article about how the Church's judicial system is like that of a repressive dictatorship," he said. What he was referring to, of course, was Fr. Haley's trial.

Searching for the article on the Post's website, I found another, more in-depth report about the case and it certainly is similar to the disgraceful treatment Fr. Haley! received at the hands of a Church court. Here are some of the similarities in the two cases: