“I just don't have the energy" (Bp. Weigand requests retirement)

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while i wish we had more priests and bishops like him, i think he served his time for the Lord and should be given some rest, at least a different much less taxing job if retirement is not an option.
 
God Bless Bishop Weigand. He will be missed in our diocese…
 
he seems to have been in Sacramento for quite a while, hasn’t he? God bless him and grant him the rest he needs.
 
He was a true and faithful leader of his flock:
In 2004, Bishop Weigand publicly upbraided then-Gov. Gray Davis, telling the governor to “have the integrity” to stop receiving Communion because of his pro-abortion politics.
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A year later, the bishop ordered the firing of Marie Bain, a drama teacher at Loretto High School, an all-girls Catholic prep school. Bishop Weigand took the action after a parent sent him a photograph of Bain escorting women at a Planned Parenthood clinic. In a letter to Loretto High School officials, the bishop wrote: “I am directing you, under the provisions of Code of Canon Law… to dismiss Ms. Bain with all deliberate speed."
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Prayers for health and blessings for Bishop Wiegand. May God grant him the strength to pick up this cross of ill health, and reward him one day with heaven.
 
We’ll have to pray hard for his replacement. The Devil has quite a good handhold on this state, and it appears one of our greatest warriors needs to step back from the front lines.

God grant you your rest, good Bishop, and God grant us a good replacement!
 
Jaime Soto was sent up there last year from the OC, right?

The plan was for him to take over at Warhorse Weigand’s retirement, which is sadly taking place much sooner than anyone would have liked.

I remember this holy man taking on Gray Davis for his pro-abort policies. He told him he was not to present himself for communion…gee, Davis lost the recall shortly after that…coincidence?🙂

He is the best, and holiest of all our prelates. I’ll miss just knowing his guiding hand is close by. California got it right, at least once.
 
maggiemay2u said:
Jaime Soto was sent up there last year from the OC, right?

The plan was for him to take over at Warhorse Weigand’s retirement, which is sadly taking place much sooner than anyone would have liked.

I remember this holy man taking on Gray Davis for his pro-abort policies. He told him he was not to present himself for communion…gee, Davis lost the recall shortly after that…coincidence?🙂

He is the best, and holiest of all our prelates. I’ll miss just knowing his guiding hand is close by. California got it right, at least once.
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The good news is that even though Bishop Soto is from Orange County, he may be as much a Warhorse as Bishop Weigand.

This weekend I was able to speak with a person that had been in a meeting of youth ministers with Bishop Soto. Bishop Soto stopped the conversation and said “we must talk about sex.” He went on to say that as youth ministers they must talk to the youth about the Theology of the Body. One priest objected saying the teens would not listen. Bishop Soto chastised the priest by re-emphasizing that the teens must hear the church’s message on sexuality.

I will get to see Bishop Soto in action when he does his pastoral visit to our parish in three weeks. He will be presiding at 6 of our 8 Sunday masses. One of them will be the Life Teen mass, which we attend with our 13 yr old daughter.
 
maggiemay2u said:
I remember this holy man taking on Gray Davis for his pro-abort policies. He told him he was not to present himself for communion…gee, Davis lost the recall shortly after that…coincidence?🙂
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I’ve always wondered why he didn’t give the same message to Davis’ equally pro-choice Republican successor.
 
SuscipeMeDomine said:
I’ve always wondered why he didn’t give the same message to Davis’ equally pro-choice Republican successor.
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I have the sense he’s been ill for a very long time. I believe that’s why Soto was sent up. I think he may have waited as long as he could to ask for help. Of course I wish he had gone after the current officeholder; my gut reaction is that he was doing his best just to put one foot in front of the next, day after day.

I think, and other posters in the Sacto area can confirm or refute my suspicions, that he truly believed he could win the health struggle and return to his previous hard driving self. The fact that he’s been out of the news for so long tells me he’s kind of circled the wagons, and only recently come to grip with the fact he genuinely needs to let the weight of office go and concentrate on his recovery full time.
 
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