No, contact God!
Letters aren't going to fix our current problems.
Time to get on your (our) knees and pray.
Perhaps the most interesting race, however, was to chair the bishops' liturgy committee, a post that has seen its share of controversy over the past decade. George was the outgoing head of the committee. The committee will play a key role in developing the U.S. bishops' position on issues to be discussed at the October 2005 Synod on the Eucharist, to be held in Rome.
Two conservative prelates -Rigali and Oakland Bishop Allen Vigneron - were presented by the nominating committee to the body of bishops. But from the floor, the name of Erie, Pa., Bishop Donald Trautman was placed in nomination. Trautman, a previous chairman of the committee, had made his share of enemies in the liturgy wars, but also, it seems, his share of friends among the bishops.
On the first ballot, Trautman secured 115 votes to Rigali's 90 and Vigneron's 32. A second ballot put Trautman over the 50 percent threshold with 127 votes to Rigali's 105 and Vigneron's seven.
"That's only the second time in my years as a bishop that I've seen a nomination from the floor win a chairmanship," said one veteran bishop.
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Apparently, the bishops did not want a "conservative" heading the liturgy committee.