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davidc2
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This morning Pope Benedict XVI accepted the retirement of Bishop Raphael Michael Fliss and named Bishop-elect Peter F. Christensen as the new Bishop of Superior, Wisconsin, USA.
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super64
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I think he will be a good shepard and defender of the faith. 
He will certainly have his work cut out for him.
Pax Christi,
Scott
P.S. St. Paul Archdiocese will also be getting a good shepard too!
He will certainly have his work cut out for him.Pax Christi,
Scott
P.S. St. Paul Archdiocese will also be getting a good shepard too!
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MilwaukeePapist
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Wisconsin is going to be very blessed these coming years with Church leadership. My diocese has Archbishop Dolan who has done a very good job cleaning up the different financial and spiritual problems he inherited. He has put the seminarian shortage problem on a positive path but there is still work that needs to be done. He is also grooming and creating new positions to train the few, good, loyal priests in Milwaukee for big jobs in the Church my former spiritual director included. I also see good Bishops in Morlino from Madison and Zubik in Green Bay. I hear that Bishop Listecki from La Crosse has done a good job but I have not seen much in the news. Even before Listecki, La Crosse had a great Bishop in Bishop Burke. I have seminarian friends from La Crosse who were at St. Thomas apart of the college program (Christensen was the rector???) and they have said that the new Bishop in Superior is going to be good. Superior is kind of different, my roomate told me unlike the other four diocese, Milwaukee, Green Bay, La Crosse and Madison, (he used some special name) but I think its called a Territorial Diocese meaning that Superior is a diocese where there is a lot of Evangelization that needs to be done as its not a diocese with a solid Catholic population. All and all, its a great time to be apart of the Catholic Church in Wisconsin
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Catholic29
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Then I think Superior is not all that different from most dioceses in the western hemisphere…
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super64
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Yes, I would agree. I once read that there were four prerogatives of the early church fathers; Antiquity, Orthodoxy, Sanctity and Approval by the Church. We all long for strong leadership from the front. Perhaps our churches can become more Eucharistic centered and that H.H.M. (Happy Horse Manure) theology:dts:, as Father Corapi says, will fade away. So I’m looking forward to our new Bishop arriving and crack’n the whip.
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rwoehmke
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People tell me that Fr. Christensen is indeed a good man, but I have yet to see anything written or reported by his current parish members or others from the St. Paul area who I know frequent Catholic Answers Forums.
Reports on http:\rivertowns.net and the St. Paul Pioneer Press left me with a very positive impression. I don’t think that Superior Diocese is much different than most others. We have our share of Catholics who cover the spectrum of orthodoxy from ultra to “off the wall.”
Reports on http:\rivertowns.net and the St. Paul Pioneer Press left me with a very positive impression. I don’t think that Superior Diocese is much different than most others. We have our share of Catholics who cover the spectrum of orthodoxy from ultra to “off the wall.”
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John_Higgins
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There’s really nothing different or “mission” about Superior. From Davidc2’s website:
As of 2004 they had 83,622 Catholics out of a total of 431,544, for 19.4%. LaCrosse only has 23% Catholics.
John
As of 2004 they had 83,622 Catholics out of a total of 431,544, for 19.4%. LaCrosse only has 23% Catholics.
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Black_Jaque
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This will be interesting to see if Rep. Dave Obey can simply cross diocesan boundaries to receive communion. He was one who received the admonishment from frmr Bishop Burke, but since Obey spends most of his time north of the LaCrosse Diocesan boundary.
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rwoehmke
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As far as I am concerned if he came up he would receive. I couldn’t pick him out in a lineup. Have no idea what he looks like. Someone in a front pew would have to stand up. wave his arms and yell," Don’t give communion to that public sinner!" Well what is a person to do? Maybe we could put posters like they used to have in the Post Office of the most wanted criminals in the vestibule of our church. Be on the lookout for this notorious sinner! 
By the by, over in Michigan the locals used to call my great grandfather Black Jacque. That would be about mid 19th century.
By the by, over in Michigan the locals used to call my great grandfather Black Jacque. That would be about mid 19th century.
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NewUlm1976_2000
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And anyone who did that would still be chastised by the Priest and Bishop. There was a group of laity that called itself “Ushers of the Eucharist” which tried to stop people who had Rainbows on their clothes at the Cathedral of St Paul, MN a couple years back. Archbishop Flynn chastised that lay group from taking it into their own hands to deny others communion.As far as I am concerned if he came up he would receive. I couldn’t pick him out in a lineup. Have no idea what he looks like. Someone in a front pew would have to stand up. wave his arms and yell," Don’t give communion to that public sinner!" Well what is a person to do? Maybe we could put posters like they used to have in the Post Office of the most wanted criminals in the vestibule of our church. Be on the lookout for this notorious sinner!
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Catholic29
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Well, those people who were wearing Rainbows (Rainbow Sash movement) on their clothes supported homosexuality in the Church, not just for homosexuals themselves, but also their right to perform homosexual acts. Which are against Catholic Church teaching, see here.
So in my view the Ushers weren’t totally wrong in what they did, in the appearance that nothing was being done by Archbishop Flynn, who later did ban them from communion after clarification from a certain Cardinal at the Vatican, see here.
Thank the Lord that issue is all water under the bridge.
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