Anybody know him?
He will have to be EXTREMELY orthodox to be as good as retiring Archbishop Donoghue.
Ping!
Yuck. I think he's one of Bernadin's boys. Didn't you hear this clown speaking during the Dallas conference where they all fell all over themselves to cover the homosexual aspect of the abuse crisis?
Oh, good grief.
What *is* the Holy Father thinking?
You better pray he has a "road to Damascus" experience on the way to Atlanta.
This is VERY BAD news for Atlanta.
Gregory was cc'd in on Ratzinger's letter to McCarrick and he sat silently while McCarrick misrepresented it to the entire assembly of bishops. I will need to pray to prevent my anger from turning to bitterness.
Well the good news is that us people here in Southern IL will get a new bishop who might be orthodox
"Anybody know him?
He will have to be EXTREMELY orthodox to be as good as retiring Archbishop Donoghue."
Oh dear, that man is poison! This is very misguided of Rome to appoint such a liberal to one of the most orthodox dioceses in America.
I only hope the Pope didn't have a hand in this. Whoever did will probably have to answer to God for the adverse consequences.
This is like putting Weakland in charge of Lincoln, Nebraska.
"Anybody know him?"
http://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/a01fPedophilia_Expiatory_56.html
In fact expect him to either ignore that document and others like it and/or he will apologize for it/them ever having been produced.
Maybe as a special favor for the new Abp Gregory, Bp Trautman will accept an invitation to recommend replacements for your existing (orthodox) Diocesan Liturgical leadership. :(
Perhaps there will be established a new Diocesan Office of Worship Space Enhancement. :(
The laity of Atlanta need to be very vigilant. Beware of any personnel changes.
Do research on anyone who is invited in to speak anywhere in the diocese. Protest any heretics.
Pray.
His column in current issue of diocesan newspaper:
http://www.bellevillemessenger.org/archive/041203/Bishop.html
If Atlanta is a conservative diocese, presumably they will have a conservative diocesan staff for him to work with.
You got that right. Archbishop Donoghue was and is one of the good guys..
Political appointment?
This totally sucks (IMHO). Gregory is no Donoghue. I wonder who we are going to get in San Antonio (cringes).
I guess one could look at this in one of two ways. Either Gregory has been sent down here to breathe some conservative air and learn what Catholicism really means from people of faith, or he's a hit man sent to mop up one of the few remaining pockets of resistance to the Amchurch new order.
If he does absolutely nothing, I'll be delighted.
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I have some Catholic friends in Atlanta and have only heard good things about Archbishop Donoghue. I hope and pray that Gregory won't disrupt the good vibes down there or have a secret agenda.
Donahue refused to obey the Popes directives to allow the Tridentine Mass when he was bishop of Charlotte. When he moved to Atlanta, he was very stingy with the Mass (allowing is once a month on Wednesday evenings in a very modern Church).
He eventually allowed the FSSP to establish an apostolate in Atlanta, so maybe he's changed, but I have always been skeptical of his orthodoxy.
Evidently the Vatican thinks that Sherman's March was not sufficient punishment for the South.
Could be worse, I suppose. It could be Lipscomb, or Trautmann, or the flamingo in Toledo...
This is almost as bad as pro-abortion Karl Lehmann's appointment to the sacred college of cardinals, or Law's elevation as cardinal arch-priest of S. Maria Maggiore.