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Harrisburg Opening Sets Scene As Papal Indicator CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 8, 2013 ... for U.S. dioceses, -- appointments of men already in the Vatican hopper before his election-- the opening in Harrisburg provides a chance for the pope to oversee the entire episcopal appointment process. McFadden, 65, died unexpectedly May 2 while attending a meeting of Catholic bishops in Pennsylvania. The cause of the death has not yet been announced. Just this past week Francis appointed Jesuit Father Michael Barber to be the next bishop of the diocese of ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/harrisburg-opening-sets-scene-as-papal.html
The Next Good Bishop CATHOLIC SENSIBILITY - May 8, 2013 ... countries in bigger Catholic crisis than the States. I'd actually be worried about Pope Francis if he were bypassing his Congregation of Bishops and micromanaging the selection process. I also don't think the good health of the Church requires us to have this particular handful of bishops as a counterweight to the careerist, vapid majority. And some of my friends might be alarmed at this thought coming from me: I don't think having all liberal ...http://catholicsensibility.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/the-next-good-bishop/
Nobody in Newark Talking CATHOLIC SENSIBILITY - May 6, 2013 http://catholicsensibility.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/nobody-in-newark-talking/
Pope Francis' First Forty Days in Office: What He Has Said and Done So Far CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 2, 2013 http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/pope-francis-first-forty-days-in-office.html
Interdict? CATHOLIC SENSIBILITY - April 29, 2013 So … when the Vatican says it won't ordain any bishops for a country until an investigation is complete , is it something like an "episcopal interdict?" Cardinal Marc Ouellet, head of the Congregation for Bishops, has communicated his office will not fill three vacancies in Scotland dioceses. And despite Cardinal Keith O'Brien's sensational resignation on conclave eve, the investigation continues. Cardinal Ouellet's office "also wants evidence on ...http://catholicsensibility.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/interdict/
Catholic Daily Planners and the Church Calendar SHOWER OF ROSES - April 29, 2013 ... after the name of a Saint is the year of the Saint's death. Catholic Daily Planner : It is built on the standard guidelines of both the Roman Missal promulgated by Paul VI in 1970 used in the Ordinary Form of the Latin Rite and the Roman Missal promulgated by St. Pius V and reissued by Bl. John XXIII in 1962 used in the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite , as well as the particular calendar for the United States of America . It does not represent all possible variants. Anyways, back to ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/eojD/~3/xr0y2Koo5Wg/catholic-planners.html
Cardinal Thinks Pope Will Fight Graft CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 23, 2013 ... authorities. "The Vatican should not be so courteous. I think they should call for their release," he said. "There was much informal [Sino-Vatican] negotiation in the past; so why are the ecclesiastics still in jail? If I were calling the shots, I would say 'set them free before we start our meeting, otherwise I am going home'." Zen said he understood that on the mainland, some bishops appointed without papal approval received bribes ranging from 300,000 yuan (HK$373,320) to ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/cardinal-thinks-pope-will-fight-graft.html
Francis' Reform Club - 'Cleaning Up' the Curia CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 23, 2013 ... As he writes in the book, "For the first time it is the Pope himself who raises and legitimises the question of reform and change in the papal office in the Church." But nearly two decades later, no such reform or change has been seriously discussed in Rome, let alone put into motion. Pope Francis may have just changed that. In an announcement last week that should not have come as a complete surprise, the new Pope sparked fresh hope that reforming the way in which the Bishop of Rome exercises ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/francis-reform-club-cleaning-up-curia.html
Bishop of Daejeon: "In Rio for World Youth Day I Will Invite the Pope to Korea" CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 22, 2013 ... really is a new era, a new challenge for the Church. I have seen a renewed commitment". "I spoke to the Korean community about Benedict XVI, the greatness of his resignation and his commitment to the Catholic faith in the world. Then we spoke about Pope Francis together and the way in which Korean Catholics can live according to the Pope's example. There I found a people who were enthusiastic and proud of their faith. " It is this enthusiasm that characterizes the Korean Church - one of the ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/bishop-of-daejeon-in-rio-for-world.html
New Vocations' Crisis FOREST MURMURS - April 16, 2013 ... Portsmouth not least because bishop Davies introduced the Institute of Christ the King to his diocese. Conversations with groups of priests often touches on the lack of recent appointments: East Anglia has been vacant since July 2011. So something else to pray about as the English bishops attend a retreat at Villa Palazzola this ...http://forestmurmurs.blogspot.com/2013/04/new-vocations-crisis.html
Pope Francis and the LCWR CATHOLIC SENSIBILITY - April 16, 2013 ... the weight of new appointments in this country, many bishops found themselves standing alone in a field, rather than steering the ship. Women religious were an easy target. The Temple Police, still smarting from their traditional knuckle raps, were all too willing to provide "enhanced" reports on what those radical feminists were doing. My sense with yesterday's news is to shrug. Pope Francis may have missed an opportunity to pull the plug, but the ball is ...http://catholicsensibility.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/pope-francis-and-the-lcwr/
Repair My Curia (Comment) CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 14, 2013 ... shenanigans paper includes newly reported information about downloads from porn sites to Holy See computers. No kidding. Who would make that up? The church needs a top-to-bottom housecleaning, and it is pinning its hopes on a 76-year-old with sciatica. He can't do it all, but he will do a lot. The sooner the better. And outside the Curia, we can only hope Francis' simplicity spreads. You can be sure that if you see a 60-something-year-old man in a black polo shirt fishing through iron chains ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/repair-my-curia-comment.html
Francis, the G8, and Reform of the Roman Curia – Some Musings FR. Z'S BLOG (OLIM: WHAT DOES THE PRAYER REALLY SAY?) - April 13, 2013 ... well-motivated Curia. "But Father! But Father!", some of you are itching to say, "What you are saying is an argument in favor of declericalizing the Curia. We need more lay men! And women! They would never be as incompetent and corrupt as those bad male clerics. And there are more of them, too! It's a larger pool. There's your solution!" Curial reform doesn't eliminate the effects of original sin. If you are looking for the real corruption, the deep and serious curial corruption, forget about ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wdtprs/DhFa/~3/O1WS2dfNIbs/
For "Project of Revision," Francis Calls a Council WHISPERS IN THE LOGGIA - April 13, 2013 ... any final appointments or confirmations are made." The Vatican said that Francis has already begun contact with the members of his working-group, ostensibly by his preferred means – the phone. Meanwhile, the pontiff's homily at this morning's "workers' Mass" in the Domus Sancta Marthae seemed to implicitly address the move. In its report on Francis' latest daily liturgy for Vatican employees, Vatican Radio said that Papa Bergoglio cited the early church's conflict over ...http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2013/04/for-project-of-revision-francis-calls.html
Proposed Colo. Amendment to Protect Unborn Crime Victims CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 9, 2013 ... told her she could go into labor at any time. On her drive home from the doctor's office through Longmont, Colo., a four-time convicted drunk driver struck Surovik's car. The accident severely injured her and killed Brady. The drunk driver was charged for the accident, but he faced no charges in relation to Brady's death because he was not considered a person under Colorado law. "For them to sit there and say Brady was not a person is just ridiculous to me, because I saw his heartbeat on the ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/proposed-colo-amendment-to-protect.html
Pope Appoints Two Bishops in the U.S. SERVANT AND STEWARD - April 8, 2013 This morning His Holiness Pope Francis announced two episcopal appointments in the United States of America. First, he appointed a new Archbishop for the Church in Dubuque, His Excellency the Most Reverend Michael Owen Jackels , until now Bishop of Wichita. The Archbishop-elect was born in Rapid City in 1954 and ordained a priest of the Diocese of Lincoln in 1981. He was appointed to the See of Wichita in 2005. Second, the Holy Father appointed the Reverend Monsignor ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/OhEL/~3/tMsd6Tt8XT8/pope-appoints-two-bishops-in-us.html
"If You Build It, He Will Come" – For First US Nods, Francis Looks to Lincoln WHISPERS IN THE LOGGIA - April 8, 2013 Twenty-six days after his election, Pope Francis has brought the US' Appointment Shop back to life with two domestic nods among a spate of others. Even so, however, this first round is a keen exercise in continuity. At Roman Noon today, the pontiff named Bishop Michael Jackels of Wichita as archbishop of Dubuque. A CDF aide to the future B16 (both above) from 1997-2005, the Kansas prelate – who turns 59 on Saturday – succeeds Archbishop Jerome Hanus OSB, 72, at ...http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2013/04/if-you-build-it-he-will-come-for-first.html
Pope Francis' Appointments Will Create Church of the Future CLERICAL WHISPERS - March 31, 2013 ... succeeded Pius X. Della Chiesa had been a favorite of secretary of state Cardinal Mariano Rampolla. Benedict XV sent the future Pius XI to Poland as nuncio. Ratti returned from Poland to become Pius XI. The future Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) was Pius XI's secretary of state. The future Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) was Pius XII's pro-secretary of state. John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli) preceded Paul VI. Two relative outsiders, John Paul I (Albino Luciani, 1978) and John Paul II (Karol ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/pope-francis-appointments-will-create.html
What Do the Jesuits Think of the New Pope? CLERICAL WHISPERS - March 25, 2013 ... monastery walls, in university corridors — anywhere the Jesuits have confidentiality? Well, why not ask one? Certainly, some Jesuit could give us a general idea. So, I called some media offices to try to get an interview with a Jesuit who would speak candidly about what his colleagues really think about Pope Francis. No takers. Why not? Well, a friend of mine had a theory: "if they do they lose their pension, housing, insurance… everything they vowed away at age 16 ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/03/what-do-jesuits-think-of-new-pope.html
Ten Days In CATHOLIC SENSIBILITY - March 23, 2013 ... outward looking, joyful, and confident presentation of the Gospel in every corner of the world. It might be nice if one in every thirty or forty Catholics were a priest. Then the JP2 Method might work. But the Church has never been awash in priests everywhere. An active and engaged laity is the key. JP2 gave us plenty of fodder to start that. Let's honor it by building on it and moving beyond the clerical focus of the past two pontificates. The 34 years of Wojtyla and ...http://catholicsensibility.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/ten-days-in/
