More than that we need to find the most conservative Bishop there is and start fighting back to take our church out of the hands of communists and the gay mafia!!
Out there is another John Paul II waiting to join Trump in the world’s struggles!!
YES THERE IS!!!
The Salt Lake Tribune
Catholic Bishop Wester ‘sad’ to leave Utah, takes immigration fight to New Mexico
By PEGGY FLETCHER STACK AND KRISTEN MOULTON | The Salt Lake Tribune
First Published Apr 27 2015 08:00AM • Last Updated May 02 2015 06:52 pm
Bishop John C. Wester has spent eight years in Mormon-dominant Utah, counseling, confirming and christening Catholics, officiating at Masses, fighting to end poverty, traversing the globe on assignments, penning opinion pieces and speaking forcefully about social justice.
In all of that busyness, one overriding Wester concern stands out: immigration reform.
Now the charismatic 64-year-old cleric, who has been tapped as the new archbishop of Santa Fe, will be going to a state that shares a border with Mexico, where Catholics make up a quarter of the populace and where heated debates about the rights of immigrants, legal or not, have become commonplace
The Vatican announced Monday that Wester, who was installed as Utah’s ninth Catholic bishop on March 14, 2007, will assume his new post in New Mexico on June 4.
“I am feeling sad. I thought I might retire from Salt Lake City, but I am willing to serve anywhere I am asked,” Wester told The Salt Lake Tribune on Monday evening. “I ask priests to move when they don’t want to. Now I have to take some of my own medicine.”
Santa Fe’s retiring archbishop, Michael Sheehan, said a dose of Wester is just what his flock needs.
“He will be such a perfect fit for our church here,” Sheehan told those attending an Albuquerque news conference streamed live Monday on television station KOAT.
Sheehan said Wester was the clergyman he wanted as his replacement.
“I did everything I could to encourage God,” Sheehan explained. “I even did some old special things to get our Lord to go along with it, and I talked to a couple cardinals, too.”
Wester said his first thoughts when contacted by Pope Francis’ representative in the United States, Papal Nuncio Carlo Maria Vigano, were what he will leave behind.
“I have dear friends in the Diocese of Salt Lake City,” Wester said, adding that his emotions ran from shock to wonderment to fear.
In the end, he said, he realized all is within God’s providence. “It’s all about God. It’s not about me. ... It’s about service to God’s people.”
Utah is a beautiful place, he said, with a “grace-filled diocese.”
Sheehan noted that Wester has made friends among Beehive State Mormons and told him, “We have Mormons here, too.”
Wester’s Utah successor likely will not be appointed for several months. However, a seven-member, clerical panel will meet soon to elect an interim administrator for the Salt Lake City Diocese.
Called in California • Growing up in a close-knit Catholic family in San Francisco, Wester left home at age 13 for St. Joseph’s Seminary in Menlo Park, Calif., to begin a 12-year program to become a priest — four years of high school and two years of college, followed by six at nearby St. Patrick’s Seminary. Eventually, he earned two graduate degrees, in counseling and spirituality.
“One clear way of knowing if you’re doing the right thing is if it makes you happy,” Wester said in 2007. “I can honestly say each day of my priesthood is happier than the last.”
The Vatican announced Monday that Wester, who was installed as Utah’s ninth Catholic bishop on March 14, 2007, will assume his new post in New Mexico on June 4.
“I am feeling sad. I thought I might retire from Salt Lake City, but I am willing to serve anywhere I am asked,” Wester told The Salt Lake Tribune on Monday evening. “I ask priests to move when they don’t want to. Now I have to take some of my own medicine.”
Santa Fe’s retiring archbishop, Michael Sheehan, said a dose of Wester is just what his flock needs.
“He will be such a perfect fit for our church here,” Sheehan told those attending an Albuquerque news conference streamed live Monday on television station KOAT.
Sheehan said Wester was the clergyman he wanted as his replacement.
“I did everything I could to encourage God,” Sheehan explained. “I even did some old special things to get our Lord to go along with it, and I talked to a couple cardinals, too.”
Wester said his first thoughts when contacted by Pope Francis’ representative in the United States, Papal Nuncio Carlo Maria Vigano, were what he will leave behind.
“I have dear friends in the Diocese of Salt Lake City,” Wester said, adding that his emotions ran from shock to wonderment to fear.
In the end, he said, he realized all is within God’s providence. “It’s all about God. It’s not about me. ... It’s about service to God’s people.”
Utah is a beautiful place, he said, with a “grace-filled diocese.”
Sheehan noted that Wester has made friends among Beehive State Mormons and told him, “We have Mormons here, too.”
Wester’s Utah successor likely will not be appointed for several months. However, a seven-member, clerical panel will meet soon to elect an interim administrator for the Salt Lake City Diocese.
Called in California • Growing up in a close-knit Catholic family in San Francisco, Wester left home at age 13 for St. Joseph’s Seminary in Menlo Park, Calif., to begin a 12-year program to become a priest — four years of high school and two years of college, followed by six at nearby St. Patrick’s Seminary. Eventually, he earned two graduate degrees, in counseling and spirituality.
“One clear way of knowing if you’re doing the right thing is if it makes you happy,” Wester said in 2007. “I can honestly say each day of my priesthood is happier than the last.”
We need a MUCH better Pope than JPII! He was totally negligent when it came to governance. He pumped out encyclicals, while Weakland, Bernardin, Mahony, and dozens of other sodomite heretics went on, and on, and on. And he appointed more and more of them.