Ha! I call it priestly Siberia. You can tell what kind of bishop you have by the assignment of the good priests.
You can tell what kind of bishop you have by the assignment of the good priests.
Indeed! But that does not portend well for the Church in the US, as there are very few truly good nad brave prists of God out there. And they are usually assinged to the churchly equivalent of rowing on a Roman Galley ship.
You will only very rarley see good priests in the chancery offices, or given choice parish assignments.
Viz Cardinal Egan of NY. He took Msgr. Eugene Clark out of St. Agnes - the consummate traditionalist parish - replaced him with a a succession of two gay modernist priests, and put Clark as Rector of the Cathedral.
Was the Cathedral post a reward? Not in the least. Clark has to put up with the bizzarities of liturgical abuses, enforced by political correctness. Like African American "liturgies" with women dancing around with bowls of insense, of HIspanic "liturgies" with all manner of "music" accompanied with rocks and sticks. The funeral of minor entertainment personalitites, which demand the worst of liturgical abuse nightmares.
It is a penance for him. And it keeps him - now pushing 80 - tightly under control of Egan's watchful and profoundly unCatholic eye. He was forced to remove the world class director of music he had hired, and replace him with a ditsy Fillipino woman who things that the Teletubbiemusik is "good for liturgy".