Posted on 11/15/2016 3:21:26 PM PST by NYer
BALTIMORE (CNS) -- Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston was elected president of the U.S. bishops' conference Nov. 15 for a three-year term to begin at the conclusion of the bishops' annual fall general assembly in Baltimore.
Cardinal DiNardo collected a majority of votes on the first ballot of voting during the second day of the bishops' public session. Based on the number of bishops voting, 104 votes were needed for election, and Cardinal DiNardo -- the current vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops -- received 113.
He will succeed Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, whose three-year term as president concludes at the end of the meeting.
Elected vice president was Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles. He was elected on the third ballot by 131-84 in a run-off against Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond of New Orleans.
Under rules established by the USCCB, the names of 10 bishops who are willing to be nominated for the USCCB presidency are presented for voting. After a president is elected, the remaining nine are then considered for the vice presidency. If no candidate of the nine has received a simple majority after two ballots, the third ballot features only the two top vote-getters in the second round.
By virtue of his election, Archbishop Gomez will not take over as chairman of the bishops' Committee on Migration. He was elected last year as chairman-elect of the committee and was to succeed the current outgoing chairman, Auxiliary Bishop Eusebio L. Elizondo of Seattle, at the end of this year's general assembly.
After a mid-day meeting, the committee advanced two names for chairman that were voted on by the full body of bishops: Bishop Joe S. Vasquez of Austin,Texas, and Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Bishop Vasquez was elected in a 109-91 vote. Archbishop Wester also had been a nominee for president.
The other nominees for president were, in alphabetical order, Archbishops Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia and Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City; Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, the only non-archbishop among the original 10; and Archbishops William E. Lori of Baltimore, Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit and Thomas G. Wenski of Miami.
The bishops also voted for chairmen-elect of five standing committees and three representatives for the board of Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops' overseas relief and development agency.
The standing committees include Canonical Affairs and Church Governance; Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs; Evangelization and Catechesis; International Justice and Peace; and Protection of Children and Young People.
The chairmen-elect each will begin a three-year term as chairmen at the end of the bishops' fall general assembly in 2017:
-- Committee on Canonical Affairs and Church Governance: Bishop Robert P. Deeley of Portland, Maine, elected over Bishop David M. Malloy of Rockford, Illinois, 111 to 89.
-- Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs: Bishop Joseph C. Bambera of Scranton, Pennsylvania, elected over Bishop Michael C. Barber of Oakland, California, 115 to 90.
-- Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis: Auxiliary Bishop Robert E. Barron of Los Angeles elected over Bishop Frank J. Caggiano of Bridgeport, Connecticut, 122 to 90.
-- Committee on International Justice and Peace: Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services elected over Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego, 127 to 88.
-- Committee on Protection of Children and Young People: Bishop Timothy L. Doherty of Lafayette, Indiana, elected over Bishop Joseph J. Tyson of Yakima, Washington, 128 to 86.
Also several chairmen-elect chosen last year will become committee chairmen at the end of this year's assembly and will serve three-year terms:
-- Divine Worship: Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Atlanta.
-- Domestic Justice and Human Development: Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida.
-- Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations: Cardinal-elect Joseph W. Tobin of Indianapolis, who recently was appointed archbishop of Newark, New Jersey.
-- Catholic Education: Bishop George V. Murry of Youngstown, Ohio.
-- Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth: Archbishop Chaput.
A vote also was taken for three seats on the board of Catholic Relief Services. Elected were Archbishop Coakley, who ends his term as president of the board but remained eligible to continue serving; Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki of Milwaukee; and Bishop Gregory L. Parkes of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida.
Catholic ping!
They have a committee on immigration? What, to help facilitate 40 million illegals going back to Mexico and the various other countries?
I am also a Nyer, so I am not familiar with Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo - is he considered more orthodox than Cardinal Dolan?
The facility is designed to look like a cashregister and DiNardo was a no show.
I never considered either to be orthodox in the slightest sense.
Thanks for your input, I am greatly disappointed, but not terribly surprised.
DiNardo Silent on Western Hemisphere’s Largest Aboritorium
Imagine how inspired, how fired up, Cardinal DiNardo’s listeners at the Vigil Mass would have been to hear how the Cardinal, like a modern-day Saint George, had undertaken a well-orchestrated and relentless campaign to slay the Planned Parenthood dragon. How he rallied his flock of one and a half million laypeople in opposition to the mega abortion center in his Archdiocese. Surely, this is stuff that legends are made of.
But alas! DiNardo was religiously silent on the subject at the Pro-life Vigil Mass. As silent as he had been the year before at the 2010 Vigil Mass, shortly after PP had announced its intensions to build its new Murder Inc. complex in Houston.
True to their mission, many national, state and especially Houston pro-life groups have been picketing and protesting PP’s massive killing center since day one. But Cardinal DiNardo, the Chair of AmChurch’s National Pro-Life Office, has been conspicuously silent over the past two years.
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/engel/131117http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/engel/131117
From the link above:
DiNardo made no mention of euthanasia, contraception (abortifacients), sterilization; population control, lethal human embryo and fetal experimentation, classroom sex instruction programs which Planned Parenthood says are necessary to secure Roe v. Wade, pornography, homosexuality, sexual abuse, human vital organ transplantation and other dangers to human life and the family which make up part of the traditional broad spectrum of life issues facing Catholics today. His homily was pretty much a pro forma performance on abortion, with little real substance. The kind that we have come to expect from the AmChurch hierarchy.
Wow...
Oh that’s disgusting but no surprise. I never look to the US Bishops for wisdom.
have something against mr. t?
Archbishop Jose Gomez, the new USCCB vice president, was recently not selected to become a cardinal, to the surprise of many although he heads the biggest Archdiocese in the country.
Some are saying it's because he's also a marriage traditionalist He's not keen to deconstruct or elasticize or ditch doctrine-based, canon-law-based pastoral practice.
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