Peoria bishop asks Catholics, 'What will it take to get us mad?'

Catholic News Service ^ | September 3, 2003 | Tom Dermody

[Pyro7480]

Bishop Jenky echoes the words of the prophet Joshua: "Speaking as the bishop of Peoria," he said, "as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord."

[NYer]

Four days earlier, Bishop Jenky had expressed "profound horror and enormous dismay" at plans to name a local bar "Hail Mary's Last Chance Sports and Spirits."

A classical example of giving a bar or restaurant a controversial, albeit 'double entendre', to draw attention to their establishment. Sports plays have many different names. They simply copped out the most exploitive one they could find.

[independentmind]

A classical example of giving a bar or restaurant a controversial, albeit 'double entendre', to draw attention to their establishment. Sports plays have many different names. They simply copped out the most exploitive one they could find.

Bump for Fr. Jenky, a name I haven't heard in many years. I had no idea he had been made a bishop.

I don't think your criticism of the bar owners is completely fair, though. They named their bar precisely because they thought it would appeal to a particular kind of fan--a kind that Notre Dame has all too many of.

[dangus]

Jinkies, scooby! A bishop with guts!

[Maximilian]

Sounds like a really great sermon, the kind we need a lot more of.

But in answer to his question: "Who will respond to the call of an uncertain trumpet?" The Church herself must first get her act together and decide what she believes in. After all, who is going to fight the culture wars under the banner of the gay-ordaining Anglican communion? No one. And if the Catholic Church is determined to follow a few steps behind the Anglicans, then we'll end up just as useless.

[OPS4]

Maybe its time for the Catholic Church to bring back the weekly tv show that Fulton Sheen had bought time for throughout the country, so the rebuttal time and the
Word of God can be heard.

It seems the Anglicans, Baptisits, and others have thier religious beliefs on Pax, and many other outlets.

Ops4 God BLess America!

[Pyro7480]

They show old episodes of Fulton Sheen's show Friday nights on EWTN.

[OPS4]

Unfortunatley, we all do not have EWTN, and the problems
facing the Church today are not the same as 20 years ago.

They need to break out some of the treasure, and get on
a UPN or some similar syndicator, or better yet buy
one and run the news from ZENIT, 24 hours with commentaries from key church leaders.

Ops4 God BLess America!

[Aliska]

Four days earlier, Bishop Jenky had expressed "profound horror and enormous dismay" at plans to name a local bar "Hail Mary's Last Chance Sports and Spirits." Area Catholics also protested the plan, with 2,600 people signing letters delivered to the Rock Island City Council Aug. 25. Developers of the bar said the name refers to a sports play.

The bar is not local. It is about 50-75 miles away. The bishop is in Peoria; the bar will be in Rock Island.

[Aliska]

I kind of miss those impassioned sermons from my protestant years. I think I would have liked hearing this one. Often I found myself wishing to hear more catholic homilies like that, not hateful hellfire stuff, but ones that really stir you out of your spiritual lethargy. Not that I am accusing catholics of lethargy. But I like to hear fired-up preachers sometimes.

[Snuffington]

The bar is not local. It is about 50-75 miles away. The bishop is in Peoria; the bar will be in Rock Island.

Depends how close you need to be to call something local. Rock Island is part of the Peoria Diocese.

[ThomasMore]

as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord

AMEN!

I delivered a similar homily two Sunday's past. Read HERE

[ninenot]

....and if you're stuck in Rock Island, it is well worth the time to tour the Arsenal--at least their museum.

It would also be interesting (maybe not allowed) to tour the actual factory.

[ninenot]

Well, if there's any fire at all left in those Irish, the mention of Cromwell ought to fan it.

Good stuff. Good man.

[NYer]

Maybe its time for the Catholic Church to bring back the weekly tv show that Fulton Sheen had bought time for throughout the country, so the rebuttal time and the Word of God can be heard.

Life Is Worth Living is broadcast each week on EWTN. Check for day/time here.

SEPTEMBER SCHEDULE

[NYer]

Unfortunatley, we all do not have EWTN

You have the internet, don't you? You can watch EWTN live over the internet. EWTN LIVE

[BlackElk]

Fulton Sheen did not buy that time. He was then Auxiliary Bishop of the New York Archdiocese (Manhattan, the Bronx and a few counties outside the city). He bacame friendly with NBC executives who were at wit's end trying to find programming that would draw at least SOME viewers opposite Milton Berle's variety show that was then the top rated of all TV shows. NBC invited Bishop Sheen to do his show in the time slot opposite Berle and paid Sheen to do it. He did the show for two or three years and drove Berle out of the time slot and Sheen retired on top of the ratings to do other things.

Today's NBC and today's America are not what they used to be in the 1950s.

[BlackElk]

Bishop Jenky seems a worthy successor to Archbishop Meyers.

[NYer]

Excellent sermon, Deacon. Do you plan to deliver more of these as we draw closer to election season? Someone needs to wake up the minds of the catholics whose fingers always seem to press the wrong buttons, once behind the curtain of the voting booth. Someone means YOU ;-)

How many people have been mislead by embracing Kennedy's heretical statement that rejects the eternal moral law taught to us by Jesus Christ? It's not as if an atheist made the denigrating remarks about the Church. IT WAS A PROMINENT CATHOLIC POLITICIAN which makes this situation extremely scandalous.