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New Oakland bishop called conservative
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 1/18/03
| Don Lattin
Posted on 01/18/2003 2:24:24 PM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:41:41 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Bishop Allen Vigneron, the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church in the East Bay, arrives with conservative credentials, friends in the Vatican and a hard act to follow.
Vigneron, an auxiliary bishop in Detroit, was named by Pope John Paul II last week to replace retiring Bishop John Cummins, a popular and relatively liberal prelate who has gently shepherded the Diocese of Oakland for the past 25 years.
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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events
KEYWORDS: catholic; dioceseofoakland; maida; orthodoxyeek; vigneron
I'll go out on a limb and guess that Bernie Ward sees this as an unfavorable development.
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01/18/2003 2:28:51 PM PST
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01/18/2003 3:39:01 PM PST
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Poohbah
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To: pbear8
Ping!
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posted on
01/18/2003 6:00:22 PM PST
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Scupoli
To: Homer_J_Simpson
First, Oakland gets a great bishop, then wins the Super Bowl. Lucky town.
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01/18/2003 6:18:11 PM PST
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St.Chuck
To: Homer_J_Simpson
New Oakland bishop called conservative Oakland's new bishop is expected to be strict And this is a bad thing?
Real Catholic bishop bump!!!
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01/18/2003 6:33:35 PM PST
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pbear8
( sed libera nos a malo)
To: Poohbah
That may well be the most nauseating pic I've ever seen on the web.
To: Homer_J_Simpson
"A control person on the far right"???
Talks like that and wonders about _other people's_ agendas?
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01/19/2003 6:17:43 AM PST
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dsc
To: nickcarraway
ping
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posted on
01/19/2003 10:57:08 AM PST
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Desdemona
(Pro-Life march yesterday - we outnumbered the other side 25-1. In the snow.)
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Bishop Vigneron is an outstanding man with an outstanding mind and real reverence for the sacred. He is proactively evangelistic and outreaching. If only the 35 Bishops that might retire this year would be replaced with men like Vigneron, it would be a new day for the Church in the U.S.
To: pseudo-justin
Bishop Vigneron is an outstanding man with an outstanding mind and real reverence for the sacred. He is proactively evangelistic and outreaching. If only the 35 Bishops that might retire this year would be replaced with men like Vigneron, it would be a new day for the Church in the U.S. Indeed! That would be a lot to hope for.
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Bishop Vigneron is on the Ave Maria Board of Trustees, which is a good sign. Fr. Fessio said the diocese is very lucky to be getting him.
To: pseudo-justin; Desdemona; Homer_J_Simpson; Notwithstanding; yendu bwam
Thanks for the ping and the good news although the Archdiocese of Detroit will sorely miss him. I liked this quote from the article:
"My mission is to be the bishop and witness to the Catholic faith," he said. "The church articulates Christ's vision of the human person and the life we have to live. That is what I'll stand up for. What's outside of that, I will challenge."
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01/19/2003 6:52:45 PM PST
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cebadams
To: Homer_J_Simpson
But some East Bay priests are worried that Vigneron may have been brought into Oakland to more strictly enforce Catholic orthodoxy. Well duh!
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