Posted on 05/31/2004 10:27:39 AM PDT by RFT1
Five new priests, reflecting a diversity of ages, cultural backgrounds and work experience, will be ordained for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles June 5 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.
Fathers Robert Patrick Fulton, James Halley, Francis Aytona Mendoza and Rodolfo Prado -- all of whom have completed their theologate formation at St. John's Seminary in Camarillo -- will be ordained by Cardinal Roger Mahony at the Cathedral, along with Father Artur Gruszka who completed his seminary formation in Michigan.
The new priests will begin their first assignments as associate pastors on July 1.
Ping
I thought St. John's in Camarillo was shut down?
Mahony's ordination ceremony should be interesting to see. I hope there are pictures for evidence purposes.
How many have been ordained in the traditional orders?
Only five priests.............many dioceses had many, many more.
But then they have Adoration 24/7!
A sad thing for the Catholics of Los Angels Archdiocese.
We had a bad year. One. We had eight last year. Many of the men in the seminary here are being educated for other dioceses, as it turns out.
Your archdiocese is in better shape than many others, and the situation should only imporve with Abp. Burke at the helm.
On the other hand, the situation in LA has no excuse. Over 4 million baptised Catholics, at the very least, Cardinal Mahony should contact dioceses in Latin America to send him seminarians, as other Bishops have done, to minister to the Spanish speaking population, but it doesnt even seem he is doing that.
Only the college seminary there was shut down, the graduate seminary there is still in operation.
"Cardinal Mahony should contact dioceses in Latin America to send him seminarians, as other Bishops have done, to minister to the Spanish speaking population"
He can't do that. What if the seminarians they sent weren't homos, and blew the whistle on him?
My guess is that Cardinal Rivera of Mexico City idea of a priest is dramatically different than Cardinal Mahonys vision.
Lord, I hope so!
Orthodoxy of a diocesan bishop will breed many priestly vocations. Marshmallowhood of AmChurchian bishops does not.
The bright side, if one can call it that is Cardinal Mahonys imprint so to speak on clergy will be limited with so few being ordained to the priesthood in the LA Archdiocese. In Chicago, in addition to the 14 men who were ordained to the priesthood this year, 2 more were ordained for the SSJC to the priesthood and one SSJC transitional deacon was ordained.
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On the other hand, we in Tulsa ordain three to five every year...
some who were ordained were converts, who actually attended Oral Roberts University...
Reminds me of the story Scott Hahn tells, about a dying seminary where a retired priest prayed for years that the school would become a light to renew the church...but alas, it lost candidates and was sold to a protestant church to train preachers...several of whom, including Scott, later became catholic apologists in the real renewal of the church...
So prayer actually works!
One orthodox priest in the Rockford Diocese had been studying in Chicago (where he was born) at the seminary of the unlamented Bernardin. He got in trouble for being Catholic and left, telling two friends that Rockford would not harass him for his Catholicism. Both seminarian friends said to him: Do you have room for us in your car. He did. All three are in Novus Ordo parishes in Rockford, are superb priests AND say the Tridentine Mass on occasion under Bishop Doran's long-standing permission to ALL of the priests of this diocese to say the Tridentine Mass.
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