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To: ninenot

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


88 posted on 04/13/2005 8:59:34 PM PDT by SaintThomasMorePrayForUs
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To: SaintThomasMorePrayForUs

Having been a member of the choir at St. A's for the last 6 years, I am well-acquainted with the parish.

However, we are about to leave. Their CCD program sucks(in one word...), the pastor has managed to mouth at least two distinct heresies in the last 8 weeks (we are actually keeping count...) and the time/distance factor is becoming a problem.

Happy to hear Abp Dolan requires clerics. At this time, he has NOT tossed the 'babes' out of the Seminary--and he put the Sem commission under the chairmanship of an individual who is abhorrent.


92 posted on 04/14/2005 4:59:14 AM PDT by ninenot (Minister of Membership, TomasTorquemadaGentlemen'sClub)
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