Posted on 01/05/2009 6:00:12 AM PST by netmilsmom
one thing is sure the pope is plenty mad at this guy .....
i bet he’d settle for a parsonage in modesto..if he had his druthers....say a prayer for the poor devil....
bwhahaaaahah
pax vo-bitem...
Was he vetted by the UAW?
Actually, he was born in the Detroit area.
He is coming home.
Wow!
He’s in for a fight here in Detroit.
It’s like “Innovation Central”
LOL!
He is reputed to be a friend of Archbishop Burke’s:
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2009/01/new-archbishop-of-detroit/
Zuhlsdorf is normally quite well informed. He has another posting that sheds light on Benedict’s approach to choosing bishops—in this case the eventual primate for England. He apparently tried to bypass the “pipeline” and go for an abbot with a reputation for holiness. The abbot turned him down or said “not just now” because he wanted to straighten things out at his monastery. Zuhlsdorf’s contact in England says that Benedict’s main concern is finding bishops who know how to evangelize. It looks to me like he “gets it” regarding the way in which the bureaucratization has ruined leadership. My two cents: he may also realize that the day is not too far off when persecution will take away all the big organizational empires that manager-bishops were conventionally chosen to oversee. In persecution, you want a holy man, not a manager. Actually, we needed that all along, but . . . .
See http://wdtprs.com/blog/2009/01/a-priests-reflection-on-bishops/
Thanks!!!!!!
SO...he knew he knew he knew?
aw man.....thats cold allright.....
I see that later comments suggest the rumor about the abbot of Pluscarden (in Scotland) turning down appointment to Westminster may be false. Zuhlsdorf is normally quite careful, so I thought there must be something to it. But some of the comments give one pause. . . . I suppose I just hoped so much that it was true that Benedict might try an end run around the bishop-makers that I took it seriously.
good news bumpus ad summum
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