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The Holy Father may be gravely ill, but he’s still working. The Vatican this morning announced eight new bishop appointments. The most significant was the appointment of Bishop Leopoldo Jose Brenes Solorzano of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, to succeed Cardinal Miguel Obando Bravo of Managua.
Some of the media are reporting 17 new bishops and archbishops were appointed, but I don’t know where they’re getting that information. The official Vatican press statements only included the eight, unless there was a newer statement that I haven’t seen yet.
Update: According to this article he did appoint that many bishops and archbishops today, or more accurately, he approved them over the past few weeks and only today were the names released.
A bishop is notified of his appointment some time before it is made public to allow him to prepare, but when a pope dies, all pending appointments become null and void. They must have cleared out the queue in fear of the impending death.
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(hopefully gleeful) Dom, when you say “heading to Saginaw Michigan” do you mean to be the new Bishop there? O please O please O please O please!!!
B. Untener was quite ah, pastoral…for many years. What a mess things are there.
Actually I just checked out the diocesan web page and got my answer. hee-heee! Dancing for joy!!
Posted by JenB on 12/29/04 at 08:03 AM Bishop Listecki seems to be a pretty good guy. Best of luck to him.
Bishop Carlson has also spoken out on the obligation to vote for pro-life candidates. In an August pastoral letter, he wrote, “You cannot vote for a politician who is pro-abortion when you have a choice and remain a Catholic in good standing. For some Catholics this is a hard teaching, but I am simply repeating church teaching.” http://www.sfcatholic.org/communication/bulletin/2004/august/bishop.html
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 12/29/04 at 12:31 PM I live in the Saginaw diocese & was overjoyed to hear of the new appointment, for two reasons…1) anything HAS to be better than how it’s been and 2) I heard about the Daschle thing & I figured that meant the bishop would take matters in hand when he gets here. Oh please I pray he will. We drive 35 minutes to get to a decent mass, rather go two blocks to our rural parish, which is run by a nun (she does the homilies and all, dontcha know?).
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 12/30/04 at 07:07 PM Sorry, killing pedophile priests is not an acceptable response in my book. Sending them to a Cistercian monastery to live out the rest of their lives in penance and solitude, maybe, but if God does not delight in the death of the sinner (Eze 18:23), why should we?
Even the worst sinner deserves a shot at repentance. Killing a man in mortal sin—yeah that’s really following the Gospel. Shame on anyone who thinks that way.
I’d rather a bishop whose gut instinct is rage at the man who sodomized his nephew rather than wondering which parish he can stash him until next time. I don’t think the bishop is advocating frontier justice—you’re taking him too literally—but he is expressing the appropriate instinct that such crimes cry out to heaven for venegeance.
Posted by I’d rather have a bishop in control of his passions like any Christian should be, than a bishop who spouts of the first thing that reflexively comes to mind. A man ruled by his passions is a man who cannot make good judgments.
Why do we have to have a choice between someone who wants to kill pedophiles and someone who hides them? Why can’t treating them justly be an option?
How do you suppose this bishop would handle a case against a priest who is falsely accused and set up? It happens. I know two people who were falsely accused of pedophilia, one of whom was convicted.
And, by the way, whether you are talking incubi and succubi or tactile hallucinations, it is entirely possible for children to feel sexual touches that no human being made. This is why I am very wary of a witch hunt approach to pedophilia.
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