Ping!
**Archbishop-elect Di Noia will be working under Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera, who was appointed by Pope Benedict last December.**
May he bring the USCCB, the ICEL and the NAB into traditional language!!!
PS. (I wanted to say — hammer the bishops —<sarc off)
**As part of being assigned to his new post, Archbishop-elect Di Noia will be given the titular see of Oregon City, Ore.**
Wow! A good place to start! LOL! I hope to meet him.
For those of us who are not as wise in Church titles, the following is from Wikipedia;
“A titular see in the Roman Catholic Church is a Diocese or Archdiocese that now exists in title only. Until 1882, such titular sees, were distinguished by the Latin phrase in partibus infidelium (”in the territory of the infidels”) or more often simply in partibus. It is led by a titular bishop or Archbishop, a bishop who is not a diocesan ordinary but either an official of the Holy See, an auxiliary bishop, or the head of a jurisdiction that is equivalent to a diocese under canon law.”
Titular Sees are established in places where there is no resident bishop. In the vast majority of cases, they are in areas that were formerly Catholic but have been overrun by Muslims or other apostates / infidels. A Titular Bishop is said to be the bishop "In Partibus Infidelium" (in the land of unbelievers).
I think this is a tremendously astute move on the part of the Vatican (whether personally by the Holy Father or, perhaps, on the initiative of Archbishop de Noia.
Oregon City is almost co-located with the infamous Oregon Catholic Press. De Noia, being the new #2 guy for the Congregation for the Liturgy...it's a natural. It sends a subtle but unmistakable message in the direction of OCP, particularly considering that the titular see was established back in 1996 and its first bishop is de Noia!