What a blessing for his diocese!
Here is one who stops my rant about bishops.
May God bless him and the people he serves.
Thank God for Bishop Vasa!
I hear there may be a job opening up in New York soon.
I figure that Vasa will get the call to go to a very liberal diocese and reform it. It will definitely be Oregon’s loss.
Ping!
As a Roman Catholic freeper, I would like to say to other Catholics among us that, in this day and age, we should remain orthodox, conservative, and adhere to the teachings of the Church. This, however, does not call for an absence of discernment. We should always be willing to examine the fruits a little more closely than an article in a newspaper. In Vasa’s eight years in the diocese, how many vocations/ordinations? Look at the words a man speaks about himself. In this article for instance, Vasa is quoted “...I’ve found a kind of holy boldness.” The words spoken, the stances taken are all correct and yet those who are closer to this diocese and this Bishop might encourage you to take a closer look before encouraging his elevation to Cardinal just yet.
1 Corinthians 13
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;
5 it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
6 it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
9 For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect;
10 but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.
13 So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.