Thanks for the background info.
This appointment was prior to the recent wave of actually Catholic appointments elsewhere.
Keating hasn't been gone that long. I guess they were still appointing members of the gay mafia as recently as 5 years ago.
If Christendom tudents are entering a seminary under the current Arlington bishop, they ought to know better.
I agree. But I personally know some people living in the diocese of Richmond who hope their son becomes a priest in the Arlington diocese. I guess they haven't heard the news.
My diocese (relatively small but quite orthodox Rockford) ordained 11 this year alone and has 48 seminarians.
Hurray for Rockford! But it makes Arlington look even worse. Arlington is not that small a diocese. I bet they have more Catholics than Rockford does.
If the bishop of Arlington is ordering that Catholics NOT receive on their knees, he is directly defying a Vatican order that was issued about one year ago.
I recently saw confirmation that Christendom caved to the bishop. A student posted info that in fact they are now requested not to kneel for communion and to maintain "unity of posture." So I guess a student wouldn't be expelled if he went ahead and knelt for communion, but it is no longer the standard practice at Christendom.
Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois, including Milwaukee (what a relief!), Madison, LaCrosse (Burke's but now vacant since he left to take St. Louis), Chicago (older appointment to cleanse Bernardin's Chicago), Rockford Doran, 1995, member of the Signatura), Peoria (formerly Myers now another good guy). Imesch (Joliet and ICEL) falls next. Needed: Green Bay, Springfield and Belleville (Gregory) and maybe one other Southern Illinois diocese and then we have Burke now in St. Louis replacing St. Rigali of Philadelphia.
Southern New England/NY metro/NJ/Philly: Connecticut's gain is Virginia's loss. Former auxiliary (Hartford) Loverde is gone to ruin Arlington (where his scandalous demise is second most likely only to Roger Cardinal Mahoney's in LA). Lori is in Bridgeport and is an improvement over Egan in many administrative and pastoral ways and is a sound Catholic. Watch him for a future major appointment. Cronin is gone from Hartford and replaced by a former NYC O'Connor auxiliary Archbishop Henry Mansell by way of Buffalo who seems sound and cannot help but be an improvement over Cronin. Norwich has a new young French Canadian bishop from Maine who is reportedly very good and replaces Hart who was a soulless member of the Boston ward-heeling school. Clean sweep in Connecticut. NY: Egan has the NY Archdiocese and was quite active for orthodoxy at the recent USCCB meeting. He is also a very effective recruiter of vocations (a common theme in many appointments lately along with orthodoxy). Daily (Boston coverup crew) is gone from Brooklyn and replaced by the very orthodox and energetic former bishop of Camden, NJ. NJ: Newark is in the able hands of Archbishop John Myers, formerly of Peoria. Philadelphia: St. Rigali, the author of the recent feast of superb appointments. Needed: Catholic bishops throughout Northern New York and particularly in Albany to replace Hubbard and Rochester and Oswego and Buffalo(?)
Kansas/Nebraska: Archbishop Eldon Curtiss (Omaha) and Fabian Bruskewitz (Lincoln) with TWO seminaries including FSSP one at Lincoln. Both previous appointments but two of the very best in the US. Also Carlson in South Dakota who is pushing Daschle hard on abortion and publicly.
Northern California and San Diego: New bishop of Oakland and Bishop Wiegand at Sacramento (prohibited communion for Gray Davis in his diocese where predecessor had inaugural Mass for Davis). Also new auxiliary at San Diego with a future (Los Angeles after Mahoney is taken down?) Bishop Cordileone. Says Tridenine mass. Minces neither minces nor words. Sandyeggo knows more. Ask her.
The bishop of Sioux City, Iowa, DiNardo has been appointed co-adjutor bishop at Galveston-Houston (to soon replace the notorious Fiorenza). Similar appointment (of a St. Louis auxiliary) at Kansas City as coadjutor to Archbishop Kelleher. Archbishop Hughes of New Orleans is hunting pro-aborts in the press as doctrinally non-Catholic. Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Wichita has replaced the disgraced Bishop O'Brien at Phoenix. Jury is out on O'Malley in Boston but how can he NOT be an improvement over Law.
This is an exciting time to be a Catholic in America as Rome FINALLY moves on AmChurch.