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Jared123
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What makes Lincoln so special is that the current and past Bishops have kept it orthodox. After Vatican II many diocese as many on here know went off the deep end. They threw out all the tradition and enbraced all the new age traditions they could. Nuns stopped wearing habits, alter girls, acolytes were done away with for EMHC’s, Catholic Music was replaced with Protestant Music and the list goes on. Eventually a person can’t tell the difference between going to Catholic Mass or attending the local Protestant Church down the road. It has always been a priority of this Diocese to have quality, affordable Catholic schools. This will shock most of you Catholic parents who are either struggeling to pay tuition at your local Catholic school, or can’t afford it so your children go to public school. Cost in my town is $500 a year for elementary school and just over $1,000 for high school. If you have more than three children enrolled one or both schools there is a discount.The Bishop makes the parish fund the schools so they can keep the cost down and available to all Catholics no matter what their income level is. Strong Catholic schools will equal a strong Parish. Strong Parishes equal a strong Diocese. We have Nuns (who wear habits), and Priest teaching in the schools. In the high school alone where I live there are 7 priest. Both the superintendant and principal are priest. Each religion class is taught by a priest not a lay person.
As far as the Diocese goes we have never allowed EMHC’s or alter girls. Once a diocese allows either there is no going back, so the best option is to never allow it in the first place. This is the area where some of you might say the Lincoln diocese is sexist and how can we put women down. So let me try to explain this to all of you who don’t understand. The traditon of the Catholic Church was to always have men on the alter and this tradition was upheld until recent times. I’m not sure when the EMHC’s came in but I believe the alter girls started in the early 90’s. The idea of all men is because the sacrafice of the mass to resemble the last supper as closely as possible. There were all men at the last supper, even though some feminist organizations will try to contrdict this, and of course Christ was a man. Alter girls are along the same lines, but there is another very important reason. A girl will never be alowed to become a Priest. So when an alter girl is standing on the alter serving Mass and the boys are sitting in the pews watching how likely are you to have a vocation develop from this secenerio? A young boy or man serving beside a Priest during mass is invaluable. Many young men in the seminaries will tell you that they first started having thoughts of being a priest when they served Mass and watched the Priest. They looked up to the Priest and eventually said, hey this is pretty neat. When most of the country is in a vocations crisis the Lincoln Diocese is consistantly at the top in the nation of vocations per capitia. In fact we currently have 30 young men in the seminary. We have seminarians from all over the nation coming here to be a diocesian priest because of reputation. We have recently opened a new Seminary in this diocese called St. Gregory the Great. Our seminarians spend the first four years attending seminary locally and then spend the next four years attending seminary at only two other places. The Bishop is very critiacal of which seminary to send his future priest. There isn’t one disenting Priest in the diocese and there wasn’t one case against a priest in this diocese during the sex abuse scandels. I can go to Mass in my home town and have the peace of mind of knowing that it will be orthodox and in line with the Magesterium. Or I can go to any other church in this large (square miles, not population) diocese and have the peace of mind that the Mass will be orthodox.
The state of Nebraska is a wonderful place to live. I live 30 miles from Lincoln (population of 235,000) and 30 miles from Omaha (population of 404,000). There is every kind of job possible from agriculture to enginering. Crime at least in my town is non existant, most of the times I don’t even lock the doors to my house or car. We have major universities in both Omaha and Lincoln with great sporting oppurtunities. If you like the outdoors there is plenty of open space, I am an avid hunter.
If I was a serious Catholic who was looking for the best place in the country to raise a family I would move here in a second if possible. Someone mentioned earlier how great Steubenville is, this is the Steubenville of Dioceses. By the way my wife has a theology degree from Steubenville and works at the Catholic elementary school. If anyone one would like to talk more about this feel free to send me a personal message and I will be happy to talk. Also you can go to :
www.dioceseoflincoln.org and see for yourself.
As far as the Diocese goes we have never allowed EMHC’s or alter girls. Once a diocese allows either there is no going back, so the best option is to never allow it in the first place. This is the area where some of you might say the Lincoln diocese is sexist and how can we put women down. So let me try to explain this to all of you who don’t understand. The traditon of the Catholic Church was to always have men on the alter and this tradition was upheld until recent times. I’m not sure when the EMHC’s came in but I believe the alter girls started in the early 90’s. The idea of all men is because the sacrafice of the mass to resemble the last supper as closely as possible. There were all men at the last supper, even though some feminist organizations will try to contrdict this, and of course Christ was a man. Alter girls are along the same lines, but there is another very important reason. A girl will never be alowed to become a Priest. So when an alter girl is standing on the alter serving Mass and the boys are sitting in the pews watching how likely are you to have a vocation develop from this secenerio? A young boy or man serving beside a Priest during mass is invaluable. Many young men in the seminaries will tell you that they first started having thoughts of being a priest when they served Mass and watched the Priest. They looked up to the Priest and eventually said, hey this is pretty neat. When most of the country is in a vocations crisis the Lincoln Diocese is consistantly at the top in the nation of vocations per capitia. In fact we currently have 30 young men in the seminary. We have seminarians from all over the nation coming here to be a diocesian priest because of reputation. We have recently opened a new Seminary in this diocese called St. Gregory the Great. Our seminarians spend the first four years attending seminary locally and then spend the next four years attending seminary at only two other places. The Bishop is very critiacal of which seminary to send his future priest. There isn’t one disenting Priest in the diocese and there wasn’t one case against a priest in this diocese during the sex abuse scandels. I can go to Mass in my home town and have the peace of mind of knowing that it will be orthodox and in line with the Magesterium. Or I can go to any other church in this large (square miles, not population) diocese and have the peace of mind that the Mass will be orthodox.
The state of Nebraska is a wonderful place to live. I live 30 miles from Lincoln (population of 235,000) and 30 miles from Omaha (population of 404,000). There is every kind of job possible from agriculture to enginering. Crime at least in my town is non existant, most of the times I don’t even lock the doors to my house or car. We have major universities in both Omaha and Lincoln with great sporting oppurtunities. If you like the outdoors there is plenty of open space, I am an avid hunter.
If I was a serious Catholic who was looking for the best place in the country to raise a family I would move here in a second if possible. Someone mentioned earlier how great Steubenville is, this is the Steubenville of Dioceses. By the way my wife has a theology degree from Steubenville and works at the Catholic elementary school. If anyone one would like to talk more about this feel free to send me a personal message and I will be happy to talk. Also you can go to :
www.dioceseoflincoln.org and see for yourself.
Actually, he came down on more than just that one preist - he also removed a couple of dissenting preists from Kino Institute shortly after his arrival to Phoenix.