Posted on 01/05/2009 6:00:12 AM PST by netmilsmom
This is an AP article and I don't think we can show any of it
The new ArchBishop of Detroit is Bishop Allen Henry Vigneron Of Oakland, CA
Does anyone have some good news on him????
http://www.detroitnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090105/LIFESTYLE04/901050390/1361
Any good news on our new Archbishop?
Then this place would get pretty weird.
I’m almost positive that we can’t put up AP.
This one is a double whammy as it is AP and DetNews.
Have you looked at the Vatican site, or EWTN, or ZENIT?
I can find out about him from different sources, but I was hoping that the FReepers could give me the scoop on how he REALLY is!
I would be inclined to think B XIV would appoint someone who is solid.
There seem to be welkins being rung on the Right (so to speak), although it’s early for responses, not even daylight in the West.
Cardinal Maida, bless his heart, seemed to be well-intentioned, but isn’t he 103? It seems sort of like our situation with our former Bishop Curlin - a good guy, but he got too old to keep things under control.
Here’s the Italian Vatican site announcement. I’m not sure it’s up in English yet.
Vigneron is pretty solid. He helped reform the Detroit major seminary and turn it into a pretty solid place. I have a friend from Michigan who has a lot of contacts who has followed Vigneron for many years and thinks highly of him. Detroit as a whole is a basket case, but I think Vigneron will be good for the Church in Detroit. Of course, the Amchurchers are embedded in the bureaucracy everywhere. But as the pipeline fills with better young priests (and future bishops), brick-by-brick, the reform of the reform is underway. Vigneron is a good example—anyone paying attention for the past 15 years could see he was headed for where he is today and his positions on the issues were not unknown, at least to people paying attention.
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This looks to be a good bishop. He was put in charge of the Detroit seminary, where he cleaned up the place and got a good, orthodox program going again. All seminarians now are required to get a degree in philosophy as recommended by John Paul the Great (to counter modernism). Excellent! I also found this on the Kick my Traces blog:
“Bishop Vigneron reminds Catholics of the teaching of the Second Vatican Council that it is a primary responsibility of laypeople to bear witness to the truth in the secular realm.
“As faithful citizens Catholics are called to bring our laws regarding marriage into conformity with what we know about the nature of marriage.” Faithfulness, however, does not ensure success.
“If such efforts fail, our way of life will become counter-cultural, always a difficult situation for Christians—one our forebears faced in many ages past, one that the Lord himself predicted for us. Indeed, even if such efforts meet with success, our work is far from done. We would still be living in a society where many accept a set of convictions that is ultimately detrimental to the integrity of human life, with negative consequences for one’s happiness in this world and the next. Your mission then will be, as it always has been, to be a light and leaven for the new creation established in Christ. The resources of the Theology of the Body, worked out by the late Holy Father, John Paul II, will be an especially helpful resource for this task.””
I’ve seen worse.
He’s looking good so far! Thanks everyone.
>>. Detroit as a whole is a basket case<<
Truth be told!
Pope Benedict names new archbishop for Detroit
Associated Press
5:58 AM CST, January 5, 2009
A Michigan native was named Monday to replace Cardinal Adam Maida, who led the Detroit area's 1.4 million Roman Catholics for nearly two decades and forged a close bond with a former pope.
Pope Benedict XVI named Bishop Allen H. Vigneron, 60, who has been serving in California, as the new archbishop of Detroit.
Vigneron was an auxiliary bishop for the Detroit archdiocese before being named bishop of Oakland, Calif., in 2003. He was born in Mount Clemens, and his background includes assignments at Detroit's Sacred Heart Major Seminary.
In a statement, Vigneron said his selection comes as the state struggles economically.
"I recognize that this challenge for our civic community is -- as all societal problems -- a pastoral challenge as well," he said. "To that challenge, I want to bring all the riches of grace which the Holy Spirit has bestowed on the church."
excerpt
The new translation "aims to be accurate and to have a sacred tone. The reason for this is so that the text will convey the Divine mysteries. This explains why the text will seem less familiar to us -- precisely because it's talking about things that are supernatural," Bishop Vigneron said.This article also mentions his comments on the return of 'dew' to EP II.
[snip]
The new translation should not sound like what people are used to, Bishop Vigneron said. "If it really sounds familiar, that's a clue that we're on the wrong track because what the text presents is something beyond our experience."
"Liturgiam Authenticam" calls for the maximum degree of sameness between the Latin and the English texts of the liturgy. "Different names for the same thing won't do; the English text must have the closest equivalence to the Latin name for the thing spoken of," Bishop Vigneron said.
Consequently, texts will not be made to sound like what the laity has been used to.
Returning in the translation, for example, will be such important words in the Catholic vocabulary as "grace," "soul" and "charity."
The poor man, Vigneron, was in a snake pit in the Oakland diocese and I hope his move to Detroit is a happy one.
Moreover, I hope his replacement is Catholic.
I refuse to enter this edifice.
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