Posted on 06/08/2003 8:35:52 AM PDT by tridentine
The appointment of Boston's new archbishop is imminent, according to knowledgeable church officials, who said that Bishop Richard G. Lennon knows he is about to be replaced and the archdiocese has already identified at least three sites that may be used for the announcement.
In interviews last week, church officials said they believe that Pope John Paul II's choice to head the most troubled of American archdioceses is likely to be made public this month, with this Tuesday the earliest possible date.
And some church officials privy to internal discussions said they now believe that -- even if the decision has not been finalized -- the most likely choice is Bishop Donald W. Wuerl of Pittsburgh.
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As far as what really concerned me out there, he was very generous with St. Boniface's Latin Mass group.
The bishops I'm familiar with live in rented houses, or apartments in the chancery office, or in rectories, or at the seminary, with two exceptions, and in both cases, their houses were given to them by rich laymen.
I don't care why Myers built his house; he was not out on the street, looking for a place to live.
Unseemly is closing a Catholic school while building yourself a big house. Likely entirely justified, but unseemly.
There is the famous comment of the King of France, back int he 1700's I think, upon being presented with the latest choice of yet another disolute atheist for Archbishop of Paris - "At the least the Archbishop of Paris should have the faith!"
So do you think it is against the will of the Holy Spirit to burn heretics at the stake?
Many of these inner city high schools are operated almost soley on scholarships, because the largely poor black attendees cannot afford the tuition and are not even Catholic in the main. The archdioceses of NYC, Newark, and Philadelphia have financially ruined themselves in many ways by keeping these schools open as long as they have. NYC and Philadelphia were a few years ago squabbling over control of a large former religious seminary in the Allentown area that happened to have a nice fat endowment tied to its remaining open as a seminary - they were thinking of using it as a junior seminary and bleeding it dry to keep these schools open according to the information I heard first hand from Fr. Ken Baker.
What is truly criminal is the Church's neglect of poor Catholic Hispanic and white children (especially the Irish poor in places like S. Boston in Boston or Kensington in Philadelphia - the Irish poor seemed consigned to an even lower rung than the Hispanic poor), in its vain attempt to be socially relevant and Politically Correct in re Civil Rights be keeping schools open that are largely filled with black Protestants. At the very least, I'd prefer my donations for the schools go to helping keep young Puerto Rican kids in the Church by giving them a Catholic education - but apparently this is too much to ask in many places.
Have you noticed how long it had been as of your post #235 since anyone has mentioned Bishop Wuerl?
NW: Imagine, you are supposed to be the bad guy here! My apologies for not arriving sooner.
Another legitimate conclusion is that "This was not our job from about 1650AD to 2004AD, when we began again."
I certainly acknowledge your heterosexuality as evidenced by your marriage, by your fatherhood and by the fact that nothing you have ever posted here has suggested that you are other than heterosexual. I understand that you favor equal rights before the secular law for those who are not heterosexual because you have posted that. If I have ever seemed to suggest that such a political position is evidence of any personal misbehavior, again that has never been my intention. If I understand correctly (and you have no obligation to respond to this) you left the seminary upon reflection, having determined that the obligation of celibacy in the sense of renouncing marriage and fatherhood was a burden which you did not wish to accept. I do not doubt that and I do not doubt that you are happy in the choice of marriage and fatherhood and still willing to accept the orders of deacon.
I do think that you are extremely unfair to both Curtiss and now Myers. I expect that you feel that you are not unfair to them. No one said we had to agree with one another.
I have certainly put Bishop Delaney on autowhack since reading the Dallas Morning News article of last June. Is it not true that one of the priests was brought into Fort Worth after substantial prior trouble in Rhode Island? At least as to that priest, it was not merely misconduct subsequent to arriving in Fort Worth. Further, despite the prior misbehavior in Rhode Island, that priest was appointed to run the diocesan Boy Scout program which amounts to putting a normal six-year old in charge of the candy shop.
I also concede, by the way, that B-Chan who is certainly a consistently conservative Catholic in Delaney's diocese has also urged charity towards Bishop Delaney and reported that Bishop DElaney has been quite kind toward the Anglican Use parish to which B-Chan belongs.
I hope that monsignor retired with false teeth and that the dentist was able to piece his gums back together to some extent after the administration of a little ad hoc justice.
Again, I certainly regret any inference you may have drawn that I believed you to be linked with the corrupt behavior of Bishop Delaney and, if, in anger, I have actually used language fairly reflective of such an unwarranted claim, you have my apology for such.
It is as fair to criticize you for making the most conservative (i.e., Catholic) bishops the particular target of your criticisms as for anyone to accuse me of making a point of going after the AmChurch liberals. I have so many more targets from which to choose that it may seem unfair. If we could reduce the number of child-abusing or abuse-covering bishops to one and that one were conservative I would gladly join in rousting him from office. I would point out that Bernard Cardinal Law was generally regarded as conservative and that Bishop Daily of Brooklyn is also regarded as conservative and that I have never had any compunctions about going after either one of them.
God bless you and yours.
The auto da fe
is God's chosen way
to purge sin from the land.
Another soul to heaven
from Torquemada's Band!
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