“The bishop has to be able to make decisions about the liturgical life of his diocese,” Bishop William Skylstad of Spokane,...Thus spake the man who has REFUSED the Indult in spite of a HUGE Latin Mass community here. He also led us into bankruptcy and now a Federal Court rules the Diocese as Bp. Bill spends the cash to zero, beggaring the schools and the retirement funds for the priests.
His example is one of the sad things out there.
I am getting ready to move from a parish with a wonderful youngish conservative priest who oversaw the building of our new church where the crucifix is huge (with a corpus of slightly over 5 feet and a very prominant tabernacle right where it ought to be, who will not tolerate any pelagianism in his homilies, although he only cracks down on the worst of the song service (but at his previous parish, replaced the bad stuff they were calling hymnals with the adoremus books, bought at his own expense), to a new town in a new diocese which I know isn't noted for its strong orthodoxy.
I have a feeling I will be taking a trip every couple of months back here just so I can walk into a devout church, have my confession heard by a priest who I know believes, and hear a homily that is orthodox in content, and enjoy being in a church that I helped to build and that reflects that you can build devoutly in the modern era.
I am nervous about what I will find.
Egads. I didn't realize that, although I recall reading when he got his post at the bishops' organization that things were pretty rotten there. I wish they would remove these bishops who have bankrupted their dioceses, but I suppose that wouldn't be fair to their replacements, who would have to contend with a situation that wasn't their fault. Not that Bp. Bill seems particularly disturbed by it.