US Bishop Change: Los Angeles

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This morning the Holy See announced the decision of Pope Benedict XVI to accept the retirement of Roger Michael Cardinal Mahony as Archbishop of Los Angeles, California, USA.

He is automatically succeeded by Archbishop José Horacio Gómez who has been serving as Coadjutor Archbishop of the same archdiocese.
 
This has been in the works for a while and was why AB Gomez was moved to L.A. Thank you for the update. It is good news.
 
Correct - and they even had ceremonies of transition last Sunday - but today it became official.
 
After 25 years of hearing “Roger,” followed by a year or so of hearing “Roger and Jose,” it sounds very strange to hear the priest pray “with Benedict our Pope and Jose our bishop.” Like the transition from John Paul to Benedict, this will take some time to get used to.
 
Good to know the transition is finally complete. 👍
After 25 years of hearing “Roger,” followed by a year or so of hearing “Roger and Jose,” it sounds very strange to hear the priest pray “with Benedict our Pope and Jose our bishop.” Like the transition from John Paul to Benedict, this will take some time to get used to.
I can imagine. When I first went to college in a different diocese, the bishop luckily had the same first name. 🙂 But then he left and I had to get used to a new name. 😦 Then I moved again to a third diocese, and the bishop once again had the same first name as the diocese I just left. 🙂
 
Good-now I hope that the new archbishop will NOT hold that so-called ‘Religious Education Congress’ that featured notorious dissenters.

May that event be over and done with under Archbishop Gomez’s watch!
 
Good-now I hope that the new archbishop will NOT hold that so-called ‘Religious Education Congress’ that featured notorious dissenters.

May that event be over and done with under Archbishop Gomez’s watch!
It’s scheduled for March 18-20 and is one of the highlights of my year!
 
It’s scheduled for March 18-20 and is one of the highlights of my year!
Isn’t that the one where a priest tried to consecrate tortilla chips one year? :eek:

Back to the topic at hand…

The Cardinal just reached his 75th birthday on Feb. 27. The transition was a lot faster than I anticipated.
 
Good-now I hope that the new archbishop will NOT hold that so-called ‘Religious Education Congress’ that featured notorious dissenters.

May that event be over and done with under Archbishop Gomez’s watch!
I would much prefer that he help shift the focus and increase the quality of presentations and presenters. It is the largest annual Catholic gathering of any kind in the United States (and probably the whole Western hemisphere). It has huge potential to do a lot of good for a lot of people. Archbishop Gomez would be foolish to shut it down.
 
The Cardinal just reached his 75th birthday on Feb. 27. The transition was a lot faster than I anticipated.
Wow, you’re right! Benedict didn’t waste much time on that one! Gomez has been in place as co-adjutor for a while already, though, so it wouldn’t make much sense to prolong the inevitable, I suppose.
 
I say we take up a collection to buy him an electro-shock crozier! 👍
 
Isn’t that the one where a priest tried to consecrate tortilla chips one year? :eek:
I must have missed that one. But I’m sure you have evidence that it happened and the Cardinal permitted it. If not, you might look up section 2477 in the Catechism.
The Cardinal just reached his 75th birthday on Feb. 27. The transition was a lot faster than I anticipated.
The was the point in Cardinal Mahony’s request for a co-adjutor bishop. Archbishop Gomez has had a year to become familiar with the archdiocese and make a smooth transition.

Rocco Palmo described the process source]:

Cardinal Mahony petitioned for a co-adjutor in Fall 2009. Palmo says “From there, the cardinal is credibly understood to have been given the privilege of approving the terna of his potential successors – not the final choice – with at least one Mahony aide anticipating an announcement sometime around the cardinal’s 74th birthday, February 27th.”

Archbishop Gomez was named co-adjutor.

Palmo continues, “Once named, then installed with the customary “Mass of Welcome” some two months after his appointment, a coadjutor would spend roughly a year assisting the ordinary and learning the ropes before immediately succeeding to the archbishopric upon its vacancy – in this case, on the acceptance of Mahony’s resignation by the Pope shortly after the cardinal turns 75. Though such provision is often sought by prelates seeking a smooth transition of governance, it’s likewise a savvy move; a departing ordinary usually stands a better chance of getting the coadjutor of his choice than a successor who’s selected outright.”

So now we have a new archbishop and we’ll see what changes will occur and what will remain the same.
 
I must have missed that one. But I’m sure you have evidence that it happened and the Cardinal permitted it. If not, you might look up section 2477 in the Catechism.
Yes, there is evidence. It was in 2003, I believe. I have no idea if the Cardinal approved it or not. CCC paragraph 2477 is not at all applicable to my question. I was not asking about the Cardinal at all but of the RE Congress which I included in the quoted section of my post.

FWIW, I took a quick look at the list of speakers and presenters for this years Congress. It is an amazing mix of everything from notorioius dissidents to orthodox Catholics to non-Catholics. No one person would approve of them all so I suspect it is a delegated and departmentalized process. I hope it’s neither the Cardinal or the new Archbishop.
 
I am looking forward to hearing “Jose Cardinal Gomez”! (any idea of how soon that will happen?)

If anyone would like an alternative to the Religious Education Congress, on March 11-12 there will be the “Living the Catholic Faith Conference” in Denver, Colorado. Archbishop Dolan from New York will be there and there are numerous conservative speakers (Fr. Robert Barron and Alveda King) and workshops. Both of Denver’s bishops (Archbishop Chaput and Bishop Conley) will be there as well as extraordinary local priests (Frs. Hoeck and Hellstrom) and lay persons.

I wish I were closer to Denver, so that I could attend. I read about it online at archden.org/index.cfm/ID/5597. If anyone does attend, I hope you post your experiences in this forum:thumbsup:
 
Yes, there is evidence. It was in 2003, I believe. I have no idea if the Cardinal approved it or not. CCC paragraph 2477 is not at all applicable to my question. I was not asking about the Cardinal at all but of the RE Congress which I included in the quoted section of my post…
Corki, if there is evidence to support your allegation, you should probably present it. You have made a rather serious charge. We all know know that gossip is often ill-founded. If you have credible information, please, let us know about it.
 
Corki, if there is evidence to support your allegation, you should probably present it. You have made a rather serious charge. We all know know that gossip is often ill-founded. If you have credible information, please, let us know about it.
I made no charge at all. I asked a question. The event occurred. It was photographed. I ASKED if it was at the Religious Education Congress as widely reported. If it was not, and someone has evidence that the event was actually somewhere else, they can present it.
 
I made no charge at all. I asked a question. The event occurred. It was photographed. I ASKED if it was at the Religious Education Congress as widely reported. If it was not, and someone has evidence that the event was actually somewhere else, they can present it.
This was the only thing I could find traditio.com/nos.htm if you scroll down to October 21, 2003 you can see the picture of the chip. Some of those on there are pretty crazy however, be warned and whoever typed calls them NO messes. Don’t know how acurate it is though. It keeps refering to the host as a “cookie”
 
I am looking forward to hearing “Jose Cardinal Gomez”! (any idea of how soon that will happen?)
It seems almost certain that it will happen eventually, but not for another 5 years at least (once Mahoney turns 80). 80 is the age a Cardinal is no longer eligible to vote in a papal conclave. It is the unwritten tradition not to have more than one cardinal-elector from the same diocese. That’s why Wuerl in DC wasn’t made a cardinal until November 2010, which was the first consistory after McCarrick (his predecessor) turned 80 in July 2010.

So look for the announcement after February 2016. 😛
 
Good-now I hope that the new archbishop will NOT hold that so-called ‘Religious Education Congress’ that featured notorious dissenters.

May that event be over and done with under Archbishop Gomez’s watch!
Infuriating. I came across a months old Wanderer newspaper and was reading a full 2-page ad about Abp Mahoney’s REC. I can’t say any more on this subjuect without verbally backhanding a consecrated Bishop. How can such people remain in such high positions for so long?

St. Michael, pray for us.
 
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