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Your "about" page is naked.

Are you a Wisconsin person?

I understand that Abp Dolan has made one significant staff-change at the Sem. Perhaps you know about more than that. Care to elaborate?

Obviously, I don't like his "style." There is not enough time in the day for that one-on-one discreet suggesion stuff to correct liturgical wackiness in this Archdiocese, let alone the demi-heretical yapping one can hear from almost any pulpit on any given Sunday.

Our Archbishop has muttered not an "ahem" at the CINO who occupies the Governor's chair and who has relentlessly attacked the unborn, promoted fetal stem-cell research, and wears his "Catholic" label on his sleeve while doing so. And don't tell me that Doyle lives in the Madison Diocese--he collects plenty of money in Milwaukee.

I live with it. I'm a Catholic. He's the Archbishop, and at least I don't have to actively contradict him on matters as I did with his predecessor and the pack of liars which his predecessor ran with.

But I don't have to like his style, and I repeat: I don't.

Well, it is not so much what he has done but what has been done in response to the new direction the seminary will take under his guidance. Teachers who have tended to be a bit heterodox are actually asking for transfers or reducing their status to part-time or resigning. They read the writing on the wall. The seminary is also going to be primarily a place of formation for priests. It hasn't been that way, actually. Under Weakland, its role was split between being a place of priestly formation and lay formation. Also, the Archbishop is seeking to make the St. Francis Seminary a place of formation for other diocese. I believe Bishop Morlino is on the seminary board. He is a fantastic bishop, even if Madison is not a fantastic diocese.

In the seminary, he has made all priests who teach there to concelebrate daily mass because if the priests weren't the celebrants, they just wouldn't go. He has made them wear clerics while "on duty." This stuff didn't happen before Dolan got here. He is beginning to make changes. He is not the kind of bishop who cracks a whip. He doesn't make noise. But he does get results. He did the same thing with the North American College.

If you are in the Milwaukee Archdiocese, I recommend Old St. Anthony's on 9th in Mitchell. It's on the southside of Milwaukee. It is a fantastic parish. I can never say enough about how good it is.

Solemn liturgy
Kneeling to receive the eucharist
Sound teaching
Great choir
Courageous priests
Strong pro-life position
Faithful to the magesterium