And it probably will begin as follows:
Phase One - replace this atrocity:
Phase Two - have artist do "facelift" on this sculpture:
Posted on 06/25/2002 5:51:26 AM PDT by NYer
VATICAN CITY (AP) _ Monsignor Timothy M. Dolan, an auxiliary bishop in St. Louis who headed the American seminary in Rome, was named by the pope Tuesday to succeed retired Archbishop Rembert Weakland.
Pope John Paul II accepted Weakland's resignation May 24 _ a day after he acknowledged paying a $450,000 settlement to Paul Marcoux, a former Marquette University student who said Weakland sexually assaulted him in 1979. Weakland was the highest-ranking American cleric to acknowledge settling a sexual assault allegation against him.
Dolan will succeed Weakland in Milwaukee. Dolan, 52, served five years as secretary to two papal delegates to the United States in Washington, D.C. From 1994-2001, he served as rector of the Pontifical North American College, an elite seminary in Rome for men selected by their bishops.
He left that post upon his appointment to St. Louis.
AP-ES-06-25-02 0728EDT
I wish him well in cleaning up Weakland's mess.
“Joy is the Infallible Sign of God’s Presence”
by George Weigel
The Catholic Difference, a syndicated column
It’s perhaps the most touching American tradition in Rome—the tolling of the bells at the Pontifical North American College, high atop the Janiculum Hill overlooking St. Peter’s, when a priest returns home to serve the Church in the United States. The tolling of the bells was particularly poignant on June 12, as they rang out to bid farewell to Monsignor Timothy M. Dolan, rector of the college since 1994.
For seven years, there was no better fit between man and mission in the Catholic Church than Monsignor Dolan and his work at the helm of America’s Roman seminary. Inheriting a reformed house from now-Archbishop Edwin O’Brien of the Military Archdiocese, Monsignor Dolan led the North American College from strength to strength. For five years of his tenure, I was fortunate enough to be a regular guest of the college; its faculty, staff, and students became friends and colleagues. I can say, with no blind eye to the inevitable problems and tensions, but also with conviction, that I have never experienced a healthier, happier, saner religious community.
That happiness reflected the salient fact of Timothy Dolan’s life: he’s a happy priest. He’s also an able administrator, a fine homilist, and a distinguished student of American Catholic history, following in the path of his mentor, the late John Tracy Ellis. But above all, Tim Dolan is a happy man whose happiness is simply infectious. I’m no morning person; but I am one among many who will testify to the fact that no one can reduce a breakfast table to peals of laughter more quickly than Monsignor Dolan.
At the Roman celebration of his twenty-fifth anniversary as a priest, one of Tim Dolan’s favorite quotes was cited: “Joy is the infallible sign of God’s presence.” In the original, it’s from a letter of Leon Bloy to Jacques Maritain. Truth to tell, it just as easily sums up Monsignor Dolan’s impact on the hundreds of seminarians he trained and the endless guests he hosted at the North American College. When, singing the entrance song at his anniversary Mass, we came to the familiar words, “Him serve with mirth, his praise forth tell,” few could doubt the appositeness of the hymn selection that day.
When someone is styled a “churchman,” we usually mean that he fits comfortably into the institutional grooves of Catholicism. Having trained as a historian and worked at the Vatican embassy in Washington and in two seminaries, Timothy Dolan knows all about the Church-as-institution. I think of him, though, as a “churchman” in another sense: as someone who fits others into the Church. By his priestly service, Tim Dolan has become the grooved path through which others, perhaps less-endowed with sure-footedness, have found their place within in the complex reality that is the Catholic Church. The firmness of Monsignor Dolan’s faith and conviction, coupled with his self-evident happiness in the priesthood, have made him a rock of strength for seminarians, priests, bishops, and laity alike.
A friend, reflecting on his years as the U.S. ambassador to a medium-sized African country, once said that an ambassador’s responsibilities were analogous to those of a ship’s captain: you were never off duty. You were always responsible, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for those entrusted to your leadership and care. Being a seminary rector must be something like that. For seven years, Tim Dolan was on duty. He bore that responsibility with singular grace.
On June 19, precisely twenty-five years to the day after Timothy Michael Dolan was ordained a priest, Pope John Paul II named him titular bishop of Natchez and auxiliary bishop of St. Louis, his hometown. I doubt that any news was so happily received beneath the Gateway Arch since Mark McGwire hit Number 70 out of Busch Stadium. But the generous people of St. Louis will understand, I trust, if the entire Church in America shares their happiness about this appointment, which benefits us all.
One of the finest Catholics of his generation has now been called to be a successor of the apostles. No one who knows Timothy Michael Dolan doubts that he will be as great a bishop as he has been a priest.
http://www.eppc.org/publications/xq/ASP/pubsID.306/qx/pubs_viewdetail.htm
And it probably will begin as follows:
Phase One - replace this atrocity:
Phase Two - have artist do "facelift" on this sculpture:
Born February 6, 1950, Timothy Michael Dolan was the first child of Shirley Radcliffe Dolan and the late Robert Dolan. Bishop Dolan has two sisters and two brothers.
The Bishop was baptized at Immaculate Conception Parish in Maplewood, Mo. The family subsequently moved to Ballwin, Mo., and the newly founded Holy Infant Parish.
In 1964 Bishop Dolan began his high school seminary education at St. Louis Preparatory Seminary South in Shrewsbury. From 1968-1972 his seminary foundation continued at Cardinal Glennon College where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy. At the invitation of Cardinal John Joseph Carberry, then Archbishop of St. Louis, the Bishop completed his priestly formation at the Pontifical North American College in Rome where he earned a License in Sacred Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas.
On June 19, 1976, he was ordained to the Priesthood at his home parish by the Most Reverend Edward T. O’Meara, then Auxiliary Bishop of St. Louis. Bishop Dolan first served as Associate Pastor at Immacolata Parish in Richmond Heights until 1979 when he began studies for a doctorate in American Church History at the Catholic University of America. Before completing the doctorate Bishop Dolan lived for one year in the diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph completing research on the late Archbishop Edwin O’Hara whose life and ministry was the subject of his doctoral dissertation.
On his return to St. Louis the Bishop served as Associate Pastor of Cure of Ars Parish in Shrewsbury from 1983-1985, and then from 1985-1987 at Little Flower Parish in Richmond Heights. During that time he was also liaison for the late Archbishop John L. May in the restructuring of the college and theology programs of the Archdiocesan seminary system.
In 1987 Bishop Dolan began a five-year term of service as Secretary to the Apostolic Nunciature in Washington, D.C. assisting Cardinal Pio Laghi and then Cardinal Agostino Cacciavillan. When the Bishop returned to St. Louis in 1992 he was appointed Vice Rector of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, serving also as Director of Spiritual Formation and Professor of Church History. He was also adjunct professor of theology at Saint Louis University.
In 1994 Bishop Dolan was appointed Rector of the Pontifical North American College in Rome where he served until June, 2001. While in Rome he also served as Visiting Professor of Church History at the Pontifical Gregorian University and as a faculty member in the Department of Ecumenical Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas. The work of the Bishop in the area of seminary education has influenced the life and ministry of a great number of priests of the new millennium. A collection of his Rector’s Conferences at the North American College published in book form in 2000 by Our Sunday Visitor Press – Priests for the Third Millennium – has been enthusiastically received by bishops, priests, seminarians and the laity.
On June 19, 2001-the twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordination to the Priesthood of Jesus Christ-Pope John Paul II named Timothy Michael Dolan Titular Bishop of Natchez and Auxiliary Bishop of St. Louis. Bishop Dolan has chosen for his Episcopal motto the profession of faith of St. Peter: Ad Quem Ibimus-Lord to whom shall we go? (Jn 6:68).
How truly comforting to know that there are Good Men to counter the efforts of the liberals who wish to takeover the catholic church in america. Most Reverend Fabian W. Bruskewitz, and the other conservative bishops, will now have a stronger voice, thanks to Bishop Dolan.
And what a job that will be! He can begin with undoing the iconoclasmic vandalism Weakland forced on the diocese. Wiping up after Weakland and cleaning his cage won't exactly be an overnight ordeal.
This is a gift from the Holy Father. Bishop Dolan is about as opposite from Rembert Weakland as you can get. HALLELUJAH!
Gloria in excelsis Deo,
et in terra Pax
hominibus bonae voluntatis!
It is so wonderful to start out the day with fantastic news!!! I pray that Bishop Dolan is the first of many orthodox, faith filled men who will lead us to Spring.
It is so wonderful to start the day with great news like this.
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Quite. Weakland spent many years (>20?) making a mess of the Diocese of Milwaukee. Cleaning up that mess will truly be a task of Herculean proportions, and Bp. Dolan cannot do it alone, even speaking in human terms. He will have to get the diocesan bureaucracy, the local parish bureaucracies, and the seminary in line, either by persuasion or replacement. Let us rejoice at this appointment; let us thank the Lord for this appointment, but realize that years of corruption are not washed away overnight.
Let us also pray for Bp. Weakland. Matt. 5:43-48
AB
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