In Colleen Carroll Campbell’s column on Aug. 14 she speaks in glowing terms of the moral high road Archbishop Burke walked as a true pastor.  I did witness his moral high road but I see no pastor like behaviors in the community, only selected places.  He only visited with those who rubber stamped his authority to think for us.  He never visited St. Cronan’s parish or spoke personally to Sr. Louise Lears.  My expectation of a pastor would be to follow the example of Jesus.  Jesus did not stay comfy and cozy in a mansion, surrounded by those bowing and scraping to him.  He walked with the downtrodden, dined with sinners and listened to the needs of all.  He left us few rules and challenged the rigid, unjust structures of the religious institutions of his day.  From my pew, my pastors at St. Cronan, Fr. Gerry Kleba, Sr. Louise Lears and Sean Collins were true pastors.  Archbishop Burke was not and I would expect he never will be.  The path to the Holy is not found solely in the Cannon Law of the Catholic Church nor is pasturing equivalent with beating people into submission with it. 

Ann Reis Quigley

St. Louis