A new bishop for Rochester: reconstruction continues (wow ... excellent insight)

WDTPRS ^ | November 6, 2013 | Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

[NYer]

As I wrote when His Excellency Most Reverend Leonard Blair was translated from Toledo to Hartford: “Bishops are not being penalized for involvement in the doctrinal assessment of the LCWR. They are being promoted.” The Fishwrappers had a spittle-flecked nutty. Micken’s of The Bitter Pill had a melt-down.

Now Bp. Salvatore Matano has been moved from Burlington, Vermont to Rochester in New York… where he replaces one of the most liberal and loooooong-ruling bishops ehvur.

I wrote about Bp. Matano HERE. He celebrated a Pontifical Mass in the older, traditional form of the Roman Rite in the jammed co-Cathedral of Burlington. At that time he said: “If this is what it takes to fill our churches, then so be it,” he said. “I will do whatever I can to fill our churches.”

Stop and say a prayer for Bp. Matano as he begins his ministry in long-troubled Rochester. Stop and say a prayer for Archbishop Viganò, who is guiding these appointments.

[stonehouse01]

The mystery of Iniquity.

Evil is in this world as a result of man’s free will. We live in a fallen world - we are pilgrims on a journey - heaven is our goal, and in heaven God allows no evil.

Mankind is free to choose good or evil. Otherwise we would be ants marching mindlessly to and fro on the earth. God gave us intellect, reason and the power of choice; that is the part of us that is made in His image - the part that can think and choose. Man’s evil choices can ultimately affect the innocent - look at abortion - however as stated before, we live in a fallen world - the evil will be gone when those of us who make it get to heaven, where nothing imperfect is allowed as it says in the Book of the Apocaplypse.

Hitler chose evil; the rescuers chose good.

[Scotswife]

Oh wow! Things are about to get very interesting!