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/
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