Tweedle-Dee
Tweedle-Dum
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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Maybe he does laps for exercise, and going to the Y would create even more controversy.
While that is certainly true of the suburbs near NYC, the town he purchased this home in is closer to the PA border, which means he got more house for "his" money.
Roman Catholics around the world suffer the embarrassment of having bishops and cardinals who choose to mock 1,900 years of sacred tradition in favor of pagan rituals and contemporary immorality. That a reprobate is located in North America or Africa is not relevant.
What is relevant is the passive endorcement the Vatican has provided red robes in two many places.
Thanks for noting Albany! The bishop's good buddy, Matthew Clark, should be on this list. He has wreckovated so many churches there!
Please add Diocese of Rochester
Given the importance of the Boston archdiocese -- it is the nation's fourth largest -- Boston's new archbishop would expect to become a cardinal
I was just going to comment that any list with Albany needs to have its twin sister Rochester on it as well.
SD
No, thank you.
SD
Yes, but he is usually guided in this choice by the advice of the other bishops in the country. Which explains a lot of the bad seeds currently in office -- they brought all their friends in with them.
As much as I like Dolan, The Archbishop of Denver (forgot his name) and Fabian Bruskowitz have to be my favorite american prelates. Why can't they get them cardinal's hats.
Chaput. All in good time.
SD
Actually, there is nothing coincedental about it at all. Myers left our diocese in Sept. of 2001. In Jan. of 2002, the Boston Globe launched the series of articles which drew national attention to the scandal. At that point, the victims came forward.
Also, in each instance (with the exception of the one case I outlined before) the abuse took place years before Myers was appointed Bishop. It was the national attention, which even the victims admit, caused them to come forward. And they didn't come forward until after Myers had already left.
You are revealing yourself as a person of low character by your continued attempts to misrepresent the record of a very good bishop.
It is true Myers is not as confrontational as, say, a Brueskiwitz in Nebraska. He will "hang out" with guys like McGreevey -I suspect because he believes he should "be all things to all people" and that it is his job to primarily advance the causes of the Church. However, let me tell you what he will do.
Having established his bona fides as a "reasonable man," he will wait until a really high profile issue, a really important issue, requires he speak out. At that point he will act with swiftness and decisiveness. He is very shrewd. Perhaps shrewder than I would like him to be. But he is effective.
As far as "actions?" Let me tell you what you will experience. Sometime within the next few years, you will meet one of the vocations he has brought to your diocese. You will meet a priest who is quiet, well-grounded in the faith, adores Our Lord in the Eucharist and is fairly orthodox. A little while later, you'll meet another priest, and note he has the same qualities.
Then, one morning you'll arise from bed and discover Father Fool, the guy who used to always lead the anti-war marches and was continually agitating for women priests, has been afforded the opportunity to share his gifts with the good folks in Podunksville, pop. 58. You'll walk into your Chancery and notice the average age of the clerics running the place has dropped by about 15 years, they'll all look like kids to you. You'll visit your neighboring parishes and notice that, somehow, all the tabernachles have been placed back behind the altar.
And all of this will have been done without you hearing anything about it in the press -they'll be busy showing you the pictures of Myers "hanging out" with McGreevey, all the while hoping they've got him figured right.
Trust me, in a decade, your diocese will be a far better place than it is, today.
"A minor clarification from the trenches - Myers bought a home for $650,000 and then added an in ground swimming pool."
O.K., I'm going to take a very unpopular stand, here. But I'm glad Myers bought this house and I'm glad he put in a swimming pool if he believes it makes his life more comfortable.
So what if he did? He didn't take a vow of poverty. He's a secular priest. The Church doesn't require secular priests to live lives of poverty. Only the religious take that vow. If the Church has different sets of vows for different vocations, then it must be because She recognizes that God calls to His service men and women with different gifts, and different spiritualities.
Myers did much the same thing when he was appointed as our Bishop. The previous bishop had moved into a modest apartment and turned the Cathedral rectory over to offices.
When Myers moved in, he gutted and totally refurbished the place. It now looks great.
The press gave him a hard time about it, also. And the libs just loved running around talking about it. I, personally, had no problem with it. There's something almost Gnostic about the idea that Bishops MUST live as paupers. If they choose to do so, all well and good. But all I expect from a Bishop is that he remain true to the vows he took. And to my knowledge, Myers has remained impeccable to his vows.
Let me see if I can put this delicately. Secular priests do forgo the benefits associated with, uh, the Sacrament of Marriage. If they want a swimming pool when they become Bishop, I have no problem with this.
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