Bishop Robert Carlson - Sioux Falls

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saggal:
All due respect, those moves were in the making long before Bishop Carlson arrived.

While it says he makes the announcement, the personnel board is the one that worked on the transfers.
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I’ll agree with that. I’m pretty sure that the personnel board does make changes ahead of time, but to disagree, the bishop can move priests effective immediately if he likes, and he has done so here before he left in a couple special situations.

When are these moves effective?
 
Last night at Daily Mass, our Priest slipped up during the Eucharistic prayer and said the following:

“We pray for John Paul our Pope, Roberrrrrr… Ahem, Samuel our Apostolic Administrator…”

It was a moment of a stinging heart for me: Realizing we no longer have Bishop Carlson. The reality of it all hit me: He’s yours, not ours any longer. I nearly started crying!

God bless you all who are blessed to have Bishop Carlson as your bishop. You are truly the luckiest Diocese in the USA!
 
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bknebel:
I nearly started crying!

God bless you all who are blessed to have Bishop Carlson as your bishop. You are truly the luckiest Diocese in the USA!
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Bknebel - We are keeping the diocese of Sioux Falls in prayer. There are many, many here who are aware of the wonderful blessing we have received.
 
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Scapular:
FromMI,

Notice this week’s Catholic Weekly, Bishop Carlson is already making significant changes (like moving Donner out of Mt. P). I am also seeing more orthodoxy at the parish level w/r/t reverence and rubricks.

Follow the yellow brick road,
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Fr. Donner had already been in Mt. Pleasant for 10 years and a plan for his transfer was in the works before (or right around) the time of Bishop Carlson’s appointment.

Fr. Steve Gavit from Ruth was slated to go to Mt. Pleasant, Bishop Carlson is trying to bring a Jesuit with campus ministry experience into the diocese to go to Mt. Pleasant and Fr. Gavit would go to St. Mary’s Bay City…it’s all ‘up in the air’ at the moment.

As for more “orthodoxy” on the parish level…I’m not convinced that you haven’t just finally decided to open your eyes and see the orthodoxy that was there before.
 
Fr. Bob DeLand is going to Bay City St. Mary’s, so would Fr. Gavit be an associate pastor?
 
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saggal:
Fr. Bob DeLand is going to Bay City St. Mary’s, so would Fr. Gavit be an associate pastor?
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Fr. Bob is going to St James, not St Marys
 
You’re right, Frommi.

I’m sorry – someone told me that he was replacing Fr. Jim Heller (who was just appointed Vicar General for the diocese), and I went with that.
 
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saggal:
You’re right, Frommi.

I’m sorry – someone told me that he was replacing Fr. Jim Heller (who was just appointed Vicar General for the diocese), and I went with that.
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I know Fr. Heller is going to Saginaw St. Stephen’s…I hadn’t heard that he was replacing Fr. Sutton as vicar general
 
Ok just want to tell u guys Carlson is a great bishop mainly he believes in bringing back the old catholic traditions (not how in the dark ages we tortured ppl until they came to our faith) and he finds it very important to get everyone in the parish to do stuff and have kids be involved in the church. I just got confimed last year by him and for my confirmation ummm… (wats the word…) well my volunteer work i took up the job to make a database of ppl who were willing to volunteer for certain activities… ironically now that hes leaving the current person in charge at my church (St. Joseph Cathedral) is apparently scratching off my database and doing the old talk to these few dozen ppl instead of asking a wider area of ppl who are wiling to help… and now that my database is off they removed my mom from the parish counsel because she was in charge of maintaining the database… basically… im sad that he is leaving especially since all the hard work i did to help and get the whole parish active with the church has been scratched off by his replacement because he has his own way of running things… (well give me back my 60 hrs worth of life i gave up to help the church)

U guys are lucky to be getting him as a bishop… i hope u guys enjoy him and hopefully he will quickly get ur whole parish active (unfortunately i believe mine is going back to how it was before the bishop was in charge of our church which is not really a good thing)
 
I’m very happy with the new bishop. One reason I admire Bishop Carlson is that he got the Diocese to buy him a $330,000 5-bedroom home in an affluent neighborhood in Saginaw Township. He teaches us the lesson that nothing is too good for God’s servants.
 
Of course, the Diocese wouldn’t have needed to spend the money if they would have kept the Bishop’s home in the first place.

And let’s not lose sight of the fact that The Grove (the name for the area where the original house was located) is by no means a slum.
 
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saggal:
Of course, the Diocese wouldn’t have needed to spend the money if they would have kept the Bishop’s home in the first place.
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I agree. I never liked the way Untener rejected the old Bishop’s mansion and just went from place to place.

A Bishop needs an estate worthy of him.
 
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Corinthians:
I agree. I never liked the way Untener rejected the old Bishop’s mansion and just went from place to place.

A Bishop needs an estate worthy of him.
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Please don’t read this as my begruding the new bishop his right to housing himself however he pleases…

But, give me a break on speaking so poorly of the former Bishop’s choice of accomodations. What exactly does “needs an estate worthy of him” mean? How much of an “estate” does a servant of God and the poor require? Many Catholics greater than Bishops have lived in humble quarters.
 
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frommi:
Please don’t read this as my begruding the new bishop his right to housing himself however he pleases…

But, give me a break on speaking so poorly of the former Bishop’s choice of accomodations. What exactly does “needs an estate worthy of him” mean? How much of an “estate” does a servant of God and the poor require? Many Catholics greater than Bishops have lived in humble quarters.
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Ummmm, I could be reading this wrong, but I think Corinthians is being sarcastic. Read his/her previous post about why he/she likes the new bishop.
 
Perhaps I “read” it wrong, but I got the impression Corinthians was being sarcastic, Frommi.
 
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Pax2u:
Perhaps I “read” it wrong, but I got the impression Corinthians was being sarcastic, Frommi.
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We must have posted at the same time. Great minds think alike. 😃
 
I’ve said it a couple times, I’m waiting for Bishop Carlson to become his own man, as the saying goes, and take control of the diocese. I won’t pass judgment on his residence or anything like that, what’s more important is that he lead us as a bishop. He’s off to a great start, as far as I’m concerned.

Look, if I’m going to have an operation, I want my doctor to have had a good night’s sleep, be well nourished, to have slept in a comfortable and convenient residence, and not to have too much bothering him.

Likewise, I think we should let the bishop have a place where he can relax as he needs to, charge up his “batteries”, and, overall, do his unique “job.”

A good portion of the diocese has been radicalized over the years and the Bishop will need to establish some equilibrium here.

For the enormous revolution in the Church that a lot of people are clamoring for, it will – face it – take a lot more than one bishop, or even a new pope. To deal with issues related to women in the Church, it will take probably nothing less than an ecumenical council, quite possibly itself with a tremendous (name removed by moderator)ut and participation of women from around the world. Lest we get carried away with agendas, the focus probably should be on the role of the Laity in the Church, both men and women. Truthfully, it is also the vast majority of men, as well as women, who are excluded from power and position in the Church.

Vatican I dealt with the papacy. Vatican II dealt with the bishops, Vatican III should deal with the Laity, and well it should. There are many issues relating to the responsibilities and roles of both women and men in the Church. In the U.S. for sure, the Church needs to deal with the crisis that has resulted from the loss of the women who served the Church in evangelizing and catechizing Catholic children in the schools.

And, especially, the role of lay women and men in evangelizing the world, given the decline of influence of religion in western countries, needs to be addressed. A good portion of Vatican III should be devoted to a theology of the family. And, then, too, another significant update on the role of the Bible in the Church should be made.

Whatever our expectation of Bishop Carlson, God bless him, we must be generally concerned about the health, welfare, “care and feeding” of the entire Church.
 
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