>>It is my belief the Vatican had in mind grooming Archbishop Gomez for the job in Los Angeles.<<
Sure hope you’re right... spent yesterday afternoon with RCIA and Archbishop Gomez at the cathedral— Rite of Election. Very nice service and homily.
Archbishop Chaput would be a great bishop to learn from.
In the western United States, Archbishop Chaput has an important seminary in Denver.
Archbishop Gomez (when named to that post in San Antonio) also had an important seminary in San Antonio.
It is my personal belief that the church felt it important to have good seminaries in the Western United States, and it appears that Chaput and Gomez have worked on that.
I imagine an important aspect of Gomez's work in Los Angeles will be cleaning up the seminary or seminaries there.
I think the Vatican had a hand in this being done, and probably Cardinal Stafford (who was head of Denver before Chaput). Cardinal Stafford was working in the Vatican at the time.
So I have a good feeling about Archbishop Jose Gomez.
It is my belief some things are done by the Holy Spirit.
The grooming of Archbishop Jose Gomez is one of them. But he has a can of worms on his hands left over by the previous head of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
When Archbishop Chaput's friend Sean O'Malley took over Boston, there were many conservative Catholics that criticized him.
But by accident, I found out that Chaput felt that O'Malley had quite a bit on his plate when Sean took over Boston.
I was going to try to find out something about a martyr that died in Maine that the first and second bishops of Boston made pilgrimages to, and I was going to contact Sean O'Malley about it.
Let's just say that Archbishop Chaput was not happy with me for suggesting it...