Archbishop Jose Gomez of San Antonio takes questions from the media at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
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Posted on 04/06/2010 9:32:34 PM PDT by Steelfish
Pope's 'Revenge' As LA Gets Opus Dei Bishop A member of the radically-orthodox Catholic group Opus Dei has been appointed as the new Archbishop of Los Angeles.
By Simon Caldwell 06 Apr 2010
Archbishop Jose Gomez of San Antonio takes questions from the media at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Jose Gomez has been parachuted into the archdiocese of five million to try to lure the increasingly lapsing faithful of southern California back to Church. The appointment was described as the Pope's revenge on Hollywood for filming The Da Vinci Code. Benedict XVI's choice comes after Colombia Pictures depicted Opus Dei as a secret society of murderous monks who, according to author Dan Brown, were trying to cover up the truth of Jesus's secret affair with Mary Magdelene.
The appointment will give Opus Dei enormous influence in the American Church and Vatican, and is the most senior appointment for a member of the group. It will also lead to Mexican-born Gomez, formerly the Archbishop of San Antonio, Texas, becoming the first Latin American US cardinal, a position that will give him influence in Rome and the right to vote at a papal conclave.
The choice is likely to dismay the Catholics of Hollywood, which falls within the archdiocese. The reigning archbishop, Cardinal Roger Mahony, avoided confrontation, but Archbishop Gomez is less likely to duck controversy. Opus Dei, which he joined in 1978, is seen as one of the most devout of all the Catholic groups. Some of its priests practise self-flagellation while praying to the Virgin Mary and also wear a cilice – a spiked garter – to help them to mortify the flesh and avoid sexual sins.
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Thanks for noting that.
I dont know or care to know (point fingers at) Priests/Cardinals outside of our own and our Pope ect..
It is all my energy to work on our own Catholic families walk/life and so happy that we have the Priest we have in our life, who actually confirmed us as adults (Catholic who came back home).
I am just getting into GKChesterson.
Interesting way he had.
Tip of the ice berg.
Going to order some of the DVDs that EWTN have promoted.
I believe the on we want to order is Whats wrong with the World.
There was a thread here at FR about an Irish heritage Actor who is in allot of prime time shows who is married and a practicing Catholic.
Wont do love/sex scenes. He has Catholic standards. : )
I dont like sports but I watch Crossing the Line just to gawk at what Catholic Men are like.
I was thinking about that myself... but then isn't being a Catholic include alcoholic, prideful sinners.
I thought that if a person was truly repentant, attoned for his sins by taking the penalties for his actions, asking forgiveness to those he sinned against and finally didn't repeat the sin when given the opportunity to do it again.... this would place him at one with the Lord and he can stand as a man with Christ.
It seems that Mel was and still may be a Catholic, so why trash the guy? He tried to be a "good" Catholic.
Which is a lot more than can be said about me. I walked away without looking back and took a couple decades to be brought back to Christianity through a true friend and brother. I thought that the whole point of Christianity was belief in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, that his death was somehow an atonement for my sins and that the only way to salvation is through a faith in God and that he is the only reason I am here on this earth and to honor that gift.
I am still not a good Catholic or Christian. I suck at forgiveness, have pride, allow matters of this world to supersede matters of my Lord, am lazy and hypocritical. I am just hoping and praying that somehow the Lord finds it in his heart to forgive me... but I don't think questioning Mel's faith is very helpful.
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Archbishop Gomez, 58, will work alongside Cardinal Mahony and take over when he retires next year. One of his first tasks will be to reform the priesthood.
“Who knew there are any Catholics in Hollywood? Are any ‘practicing?’”
Yes, they are practicing sodomy and abortion.
A much more honest take than our American papers(RAGS) are putting out.
Having visited the place, I agree. On-line pictures do not do justice to its ugliness. The tabernacle in the bless sacrament chapel is depressingly so. The only saving grace is the tapestries on the wall.
I didn’t think I was trashing Mel or questioning his faith. I have no clue what he truly believes or where he stands with the Lord. I am not on that committee. Nor did I particularly feel that I was being so much judgmental as pointing out the obvious within the context of “Hollywood.” Gibson was the only openly Catholic Hollywood celebrity I could think of as the question arose of Hollywood’s displeasure with the new Bishop.
Mel was (maybe still is) a member of a very Orthodox branch of Catholicism who left his wife of nearly 30 years who mothered his 7 children for a younger woman with whom he was consorting rather publicly. That behavior strikes me as more “Hollywood” than “Catholic,” much less orthodox Catholic. That’s all I’m sayin’
More pertinent to real life is your own finding your own way back .. and my own ability to feel eligible one day to withstand His judgment.
As So Cal resident I am completely enjoy this LOL!
I have deep thrill when so called BIG ONE HITS that catherial go down during the quake LOL!
Got to love how the homo-media in the UK publishes a hit-piece on an excellent bishop (Gomez), but has nary a critical word to say about the homo-friendly megalomaniac “progressive” he’s replacing.
Well that UK papers they are livid they are bunch of whiney little libs LOL!
I think was also in the Sci Fi mini series, The Tin Man.
Good! We need this kind of “revenge” on the all of the dark side church and society! Jesuits used to do war with dark forces then “progressed” to do war for the other side. We need to declare spiritual war on the dark forces of Western civilization.
Radically orthodox? Who writes this cr**?
I think that CS Lewis said it best, ( I am paraphrasing). "you might think that you want to meet the Lord, but when you do there will be no pretending, no pretense or falsehoods. All will be laid in the open." I know that I am nothing and without him I am lost, but I am hoping that my pathetic efforts at trying and failing and trying again to be a Christian are enough.
I know Mahony a bit. He is a confident, intelligent, learned man. His homilies and reflections, while not scintillating, could often be quite insightful.
Political views - grr. Also responded very slowly and defensively to sex scandals. We even disinvited him to the CIMA Awards one year because of that - although I disagreed with that decision. His beef with Mother Angelica did not redound to his benefit.
What’s Wrong With The World?
The Adversary is afoot - and we don’t believe in him anymore!
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