Bishop Moore

The poet Honor Moore has written a memoir of her father, Bishop Paul Moore; an excerpt has just appeared in The New Yorker. 

I include the link to this article but I hasten to add that I hope people will think twice before they read it. It contains some very hurtful comments on a Bishop of New York who was beloved to me and many people of this diocese. Bishop Moore would have been the first to admit that he was unsure about a lot of things and that he was far from perfect. It is too bad that, despite advice to the contrary from the current Bishop of New York in a recent (and rare) pastoral letter, critics of Bishop Moore's vision of freedom for all people are likely to have a field day with this memoir. 

As one of the my colleagues remarked, the memoir genre is out-of-control. The tendency at funerals to puff up the departed is later countered with extreme criticism, which is all the more potent, given that the dead are unable to give their side of the story. As for Bishop Moore, may he rest in peace.  --J. Douglas Ousley