Female Pastoral Ministers Replace Catholic Priests

Rochester Democrat & Chronicle ^ | October 22, 2002 | Doug Mandelaro

[Maximilian]

>>You seem to make him out to be a Modernist in orthodox clothing. I don't think so.

You're right that such a description would be much too harsh. I think it was more subtle than that. The line between normal patriotism and "Americanism" is not black and white. That's why all the people condemned by Pope Leo XIII (like Isaac Hecker) claimed that they weren't Americanists, he must have been thinking of someone else.

[daffyduct]

One of Bishop Sheen's first "achievments" was to close the dioceses minor seminary, St. Andrew's and make it a prep school. He also changed confirmation to high school. When his successor moved it back to grammar school a large number of youth never received the sacrament. He also may have been the Bishop who closed the Major Seminary (St. Bernard's) and sent seminarians to St. John Fisher College.

I can not recall if Bishop Sheen was the immediate predecessor of Mathew Clark. Bishop Hogan was in there either between Bishops Kearney and Sheen or Bishops Sheen and Clark. In any event, most Rochester Catholics were not unhappy to see Bishop Sheen go.

[nina0113]

ping.