[Aquinasfan]

Not to change the subject or anything, but does anyone know anything about Bishop Wuerl?

We need someone here to clean house. Last year St. John's seminary in Brighton had zero new seminarians, and it's not for a lack of candidates. I personally know of two candidates who feel that they were blackballed, one for having given the wrong answers to questions regarding homosexuality and the other for being "too orthodox" (the candidate's words).

[american colleen]

I hear mixed stuff about him... someone in the National Catholic Register called him a "bridge builder" (shrudder)!

I know two guys who left St. John's in the early 80s because it was too gayed. But interim Bishop Lennon took over and it was supposed to be better under him. And the new guy just appointed is supposed to be orthodox. But the vocations take seed in our parishes... and that can be a problem!

What years did the two guys you knew have those experiences at the seminary here?

I hope and pray we get a holy, orthodox bishop who will stand firmly against the prevailing tide of heterodoxy here.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

From my limited personal interaction with Bishop Wuerl, I very much like him. As far as his running the diocese of Pittsburgh, he has done as well as might be expected given 1) Vatican II, 2) the mass de-population of the City of Pittsburgh.

As far as what really concerned me out there, he was very generous with St. Boniface's Latin Mass group.