The proceedings had begun with a prayer for the slain officer by a police chaplain.
As the police chaplain droned on about life and death and dedication to service, she looked around for any familiar faces.
Bishop Daily wrote Father Delaney and said that a police chaplain had also found the charges false.
What else could that last statement mean, but an order that police chaplains who don't approve of homosexuality keep their opinions to themselves?
The police chaplain, Jack Poe, said it was "time that the flag flew again - this has not defeated us."
Con had met Father Santucci ten years before, when he was a police chaplain.
Father von Wernich worked as a police chaplain during the dictatorship, from 1976 to 1983.
A police chaplain came by and we talked about losing the house.
As the service drew to a close, the police chaplain said a prayer.
Being a nun and a police chaplain are not so different, she said.