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Diogenes at Off the Record falls prey to the Catholic Herald's practice of waiting until the following week's issue to assign a permanent URL to a "Herald of Hope" column. The column by Bishop Sklba on "The Scourge of Racism is now here.

I used to frequent the monthly businessmens' prayer breakfasts of The Peter Favre Forum. Bishop Sklba is its spiritual director. Each month's meeting has a guest speaker. One spoke on the experience of black Catholics and felt compelled to note the scandal of Milwaukee's closed inner city parishes. I don't recall the exact words of Bishop Sklba's sputtered response, but between it and his column it appears that any other institution closing its inner city facilities was racism, but the Archdiocese of Milwaukee closing them was a sad necessity.