{"id":5821,"date":"2024-08-15T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T23:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5821"},"modified":"2024-08-12T01:49:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T23:49:42","slug":"pittsburgh-lack-of-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5821","title":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH: LACK OF TRANSPARENCY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\u201cFathers Adrien Telmon, Augustin Gaudet and the scholastic Eug\u00e8ne Cauvin were appointed to staff the major seminary and they left on September 15, taking over the seminary on October 3. They found that there were only six students, lodged in a poor little house which was then under repair and was destined to be an orphanage. They were there for only a few weeks, because on January 3, 1849, Father Telmon wrote to Mother Bruy\u00e8re in Bytown saying that the seminary was now in another house which was also undergoing repair and he added: \u201cSo, what else have I done since my last letter? Alas! only the same as I have done since my arrival here. I build, I do carpentry, I clean, I wash, I get covered in dust, I ruin myself, I wear myself out\u2026\u201d Father Telmon sent news to the Sisters in Bytown and Longueuil but he wrote very little to the Founder.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/pittsburgh-pennsylvania-united-states-1848-1849\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.omiworld.org\/lemma\/pittsburgh-pennsylvania-united-states-1848-1849\/<\/a>). Eugene reproached him for not communicating that the Bishop had not been transparent about the real situation in the seminary &#8211; and that Telmon&#8217;s own lack of transparency had been wrong.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>I beg you all to put order into your correspondence with me. You should have kept me up to date with all your activities. Never in any Congregation or Religious Order can it be maintained that local superiors might insist on not corresponding directly with their Superior General (especially when he has reminded them several times of this duty) in order to keep him informed of the state of their community, of the activities of their ministry, of the financial condition of their house, etc.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr. Adrien Telmon in Pittsburgh, 5 November 1848, EO I n 105<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;The single most important ingredient in the recipe for success is transparency because transparency builds trust.&#8221; D. Morrison<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFathers Adrien Telmon, Augustin Gaudet and the scholastic Eug\u00e8ne Cauvin were appointed to staff the major seminary and they left on September 15, taking over the seminary on October 3. They found that there were only six students, lodged in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5821\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}