Most Reverend Martin John Amos
Posted on 10/12/2006 5:05:54 PM PDT by NYer
DAVENPORT, Iowa, OCT. 12, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of Bishop William E. Franklin, 76, of Davenport and appointed Auxiliary Bishop Martin Amos of Cleveland as his successor.
The Pope also named Father John Dooher, pastor of St. Mary's Church, Dedham, Massachusetts, and Father Robert F. Hennessey, pastor of Most Holy Redeemer Church, East Boston, as auxiliary bishops of Boston.
Martin John Amos was born in Cleveland on Dec. 8, 1941. He studied at Borromeo Seminary College, Wickliffe, and St. Mary Seminary, Cleveland. He holds a master's in education.
He was ordained a priest of the Cleveland Diocese in May 1968. He was appointed auxiliary bishop of Cleveland in April 2001.
The newly appointed auxiliary bishops of Boston are graduates of St. John's Seminary College, in Brighton. Bishop-designate Dooher received a master's of divinity degree in 1969.
Bishop-designate Hennessey earned a master's of divinity in 1978.
Any opinions here?
Bishop Amos is old. I wonder if he's a space-filler until they can move a younger, reformist Bishop in?
From his picture, he looks nice. Bishop Franklin seemed nice, too. He's been under fire for a lot of things. I'm neutral about the bankruptcy at this point. I've been sympathetic to the victims, most of whom all over the country are telling the truth, a few have other motives imo. The new bishop will need lots of fortitude and prayer, he is walking into a lion's den.
Bishop Amos is 65, born December ?, 1941.
December 8, bless his heart. I wonder if his father was mobilized for WWII following the Pearl Harbor attacks.
My great-uncle got married on December 4, 1941, and was called to service on December 9. He spent the next 4 years in the Pacific.
He has a kind smile. I wish him the best.
I think the individual parishes are incorporated separately so most of their assets can't be touched; I don't know where things stand; I think it is the diocese who had to make the settlements, so it's not like everything is going down. People don't want their money going for it so the Bishop's Annual Appeal explicitly stated that none of the money would go toward abuse settlements. Most of what the church has, apart from investments, was donated by somebody at some point; many donors are no doubt in the next world.
The people generally seem myopic; no mention has been made of the relatively much worse messes in other parts of the country, especially Boston and LA, probably just as well they don't know all of it.
The former Catholic Messenger editor, who was also caught with kiddie porn on, think it was his church computer, was hired back by the church as a janitor, violated his probation and is back in the slammer.
That's about all I have to say about it.
My father served 4 years during WWII, I was born 3 months before Pearl Harbor. He didn't come home until I was about 5, have the papers somewhere. I don't know if the bishop's father served or not. Almost everybody had a relative who served, but none of my childhood playmates' fathers were away in service, their fathers were younger than mine, too. I'm glad mine came home, can't imagine life without him growing up the rest of the years. He died when I was 41, blessed to have him for a father.
Nothing like what the next Bishop of Los Angeles is going to have to deal with, though ...
Hmmm... from the land of Pilla... I'm going to have a hard time fighting a bias against him.
Didn't hear that. Pretty sad, as it seems he rejected God in the end.
Yes indeed ... Pillaland is as bad as Mahonyville
Maybe didn't reject God, can't know what was in his heart at the end, could be a way of demonstrating his feeling of unworthiness. While I deplore what he did, if he did it, I felt a twinge of sadness when I heard it on the radio, died in a hospice, heart trouble, I believe. May God be merciful on us all.
Hopefully you are correct. But to ask that a funeral service not be performed and to be cremated is very scandalous.
But as you say, he may have felt very unworthy.
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