Down here in the southeast we've been blessed with good bishops; Donoghue in Atlanta (now sadly retired and replaced by Wilton Gregory), Baker in Charleston, Jugis in Charlotte and Boland (not the one who was in KC) in Savannah.
We're still holding our breath about Gregory.
It's sort of the "Does any good thing come out of the USCCB?" syndrome. He hasn't done anything outrageous, but I keep watching him out of the corner of my eye.
Revive me if I turn blue with all this breath holding, 'K?
Add to your honor roll Bishop Joseph Kurtz, lately of Knoxville, TN and tomorrow (the Feast of the Assumption) to be received as Archbishop of Louisville, KY.
I believe he held the record of highest rate of ordinations to the priesthood AND to the permanent diaconate of any bishop in the US. In a Diocese where Catholics are a small minority (something like 3% of the population of East Tennessee) his ordinations outnumbered those of huge dioceses like Chicago and LA.
I’m in East TN! I’ll miss him!
EWTN is HUGE, thus Birmingham is VERY important. EWTN is the face of the Church that Rome wants America and the world to see. It has been key to the reform of the reform of the liturgy. People see Mass as celebrated on EWTN and ask why their parishes seem more like a floor show. Also, EWTN is instrumental to the implementation of Summorum Pontificum. The best way to learn the old mass is to see it. On the tv it can also be explained.EWTN makes the diocese of Birmingham one of the most important in the nation.