Posted on 09/04/2014 2:12:08 PM PDT by Biggirl
Minutes ago, Joseph Zwilling, Director of Communications for the Archdiocese of New York, released the following statement today on behalf of the archdiocese, in an attempt to clarify certain questions concerning the cause of Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.
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There is no statement.
So...this is basically an Archbishop and a Cardinal conducting an argument through press releases.
I wasn’t quite sure why Abp Sheen should be in Peoria. His work was in NYC, and when I was a college student working in the Schrafft’s across the street from St Agnes Church, I always used to see people gathering under the (now primitive) loudspeakers to listen to his preaching.
But what I really don’t know is why his cause has been halted.
He was not a devotee of Vatican II or of the Novus Ordo, but he was an obedient priest, and when they sent him off to Rochester to humiliate him, he opened a soup kitchen. He was a holy man.
Was there a Schrafft’s across from St. Agnes? How cool. It only became my parish in the 1990s. My family adored Sheen put only knew him from tv. I was too young to watch.
I can remember when my mother watched his program on TV, but I did not pay much attention, since I was a child.
My girlfriend’s mother was a waitress at that same Schrafft’s, I think . . . unless there was another near Grand Central. I don’t know the years she waitressed but probably the late ‘50s or early ‘60s. She said she worked very hard but was treated well and the tips were great.
He was from El Paso, Illinois, a few miles away from Peoria.
Archdiocese of New York
1011 First Avenue
NewYork, NY 10022
archny.org/. . . Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan
Archbishop of New York
Thank-you and God Bless!
Many people were sympathetic to the general idea that the Church needed to modernize some of its structures, and as for the Mass, the original 1965 changes were nowhere like what was finally imposed in 1970. The original changed mass was basically just a translation, the one that was already used in most missals, with a few minor changes. It actually was nice to hear the words in English.
The other thing was that the NO and the other changes were imposed so fiercely by the Marxist boy bishops appointed by Paul VI that priests did not dare to criticize or even murmur gently about their reservations. He was a very obedient man, having been brought up in the old school, and like many others, tried hard to accept and not only accept but find the Lord’s will in the situation. (It was actually Cdl Spellman who banished him to Rochester.) I knew other good priests like that, who may have been heartbroken by the changes, but tried to persevere and continue to love the Church .
That was probably the same Schrafft’s! It was not a bad place to work at all. Most of the older waitresses were Irish, from Ireland, that is.
As is my gf's mother. That her name is Bridget probably doesn't narrow the field by much!
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