We have a new Archbishop!

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jwinch2 said:
I’m hoping the Archbishop will be inclined to speak out publicly in defense of the Church’s teachings. If the Archbishop feels that her situation warrants excommunication, that is his decision to make. I would much rather have that occur than Pelosi continue to flout her heretical positions while claiming to be Catholic with little if any response from the Church.

I shudder to think of the number of people led away from the truth of the faith because they saw politicians standing side by side with clergy one day only to fight against the very things the Church teaches the next. I shudder to think about the number of people who’s understanding of the truth has been shaken due to the actions of those in public positions who call themselves Catholic and until recently, a saddening lack of a Church response. I’m sick of seeing so a called Catholic in Nancy Pelosi who urges the Bishops to get more involved in political matters when it suits her purposes on things like immigration reform and then tells them to stay out of politics a few months later when the issue of abortion or gay marriage comes up.

If any of that ever stops, it would indeed be lovely. And if you expected me to feel ashamed or to apologize for any of that, you have the wrong guy.

How to actually go about handling it, I will leave to the Archbishop.
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I see. And if your words are taken to imply that the current San Francisco Archbishop and perhaps also his predecessor, Archbishop (and now Cardinal) Levada were not “inclined to speak out publicly in defense of the Church’s teachings,” why that’s not really what you meant at all.

A Pelosi excommunication isn’t going to happen. Bishop Cordileone has spent three years in Oakland and will probably spend longer in San Francisco. But he’s widely viewed here as someone who would like to return someday to the Vatican, where he studied for several years and worked for another seven. He’s young enough at 56 to do that. But starting a war in San Francisco wouldn’t contribute to that end.
 
jgeorges45 said:
I see. And if your words are taken to imply that the current San Francisco Archbishop and perhaps also his predecessor, Archbishop (and now Cardinal) Levada were not “inclined to speak out publicly in defense of the Church’s teachings,” why that’s not really what you meant at all.
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I have a great deal of respect for Cardinal Levada but have no idea who the current Archbishop of SF is. I am simply happy that Bishop Salvatore will be in the position. What I do know is that many in the Church for years have been critical of the handling of her and other similar situations in the archdiocese and that Bishop Salvatore’s appointment has been labeled by such noted commentators as Rocco Palmo as the “Bombshell By the Bay”. He goes on to describe it as “either the most courageously bold – or stunningly brazen – American appointment in the seven-year reign of Pope Benedict XVI”. whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2012/07/b16s-bombshell-by-bay-marriage-chief.html
A Pelosi excommunication isn’t going to happen. Bishop Cordileone has spent three years in Oakland and will probably spend longer in San Francisco. But he’s widely viewed here as someone who would like to return someday to the Vatican, where he studied for several years and worked for another seven. He’s young enough at 56 to do that. But starting a war in San Francisco wouldn’t contribute to that end.
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We’ll have to see I guess.
 
jgeorges45 said:
A Pelosi excommunication isn’t going to happen.
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Perhaps not, and that would be for a bishop to decide.
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Bishop Cordileone has spent three years in Oakland and will probably spend longer in San Francisco. But he’s widely viewed here as someone who would like to return someday to the Vatican, where he studied for several years and worked for another seven. He’s young enough at 56 to do that. But starting a war in San Francisco wouldn’t contribute to that end.
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Yet, Bishop Cordileone is reputed to be a true defender of the faith, and it is thus rightly speculated that the inevitable interaction he will have with Ms. Pelosi will be sure to include a review and clear articulation of Catholic teachings and beliefs, and our responsibility as Catholics to be faithful to such.
 
Archbishop-Elect Salvatore will be interviewed on KQED Forum, an NPR affiliate, today, Wednesday, August 8th from 10:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M. Pacific Time
 
As Met Salvatore’s close friend Fr Tom Loya (Light of the East Radio) says “A bishop is a guy with a bull’s eye on his back.” The secular media has been gunning after His Eminence from day one when he arrived in Oakland, because he is the face of the USCCB regarding defense of marriage. When I introduced myself to him (again) after the recent Oakland Diocese 50th Anniversary Mass, I gave a thumbs up when parting, saying “Axios!”. He replied “I hope so”, his demeanor having become entirely serious. It was a telling moment which I won’t forget.

It is an overwhelming, and surely lonely, task being Archbishop. And while San Francisco in reality is a very diverse archdiocese, the secular press shows no inclination towards objectivity on many subjects here.
 
Vico said:
Satan is trying to take him out because of the good being done.
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No need to bring Satan into it. Human weakness is everywhere. My first cousin, a good priest and the pastor of a church in one of the eastern states, was killed in an auto accident some years ago after an evening celebration with other priests at which he likely drank too much.

Bishop Cordileone isn’t the first bishop to face drunk-driving charges and he probably won’t be the last. But a conviction certainly won’t do anything for his moral authority. Even so, if he lectures Nancy Pelosi about her obligations, I would hope that she refrains from saying that she doesn’t take moral advice from a drunkard.
 
It was a WONDERFUL Installation Mass on the Feastday of the patron saint of our city! There were a very limited number of tickets for the Mass given to each parish. I felt very blest to have had one. Ten of us from our Russian Greek Catholic parish were there, which is about half the parish, LOL. Not so lucky for larger parishes who got the same number of tickets, in the interest of being fair I suppose. Never enough tickets for such a great celebration.

I was so engrossed in conversation walking past the front of the Cathedral on the way to our entrance I thought we had passed some very quiet and orderly protesters. I learned from my husband later it was in fact a large group of **supporters **of the Archbishop. LOL!

I got to talk briefly with Fr Tom Loya in the reception, but only because he’s so tall and taller still with his kamilavka so we could spot him in the sea of thousands downstairs. In the Mass Abbot Nicholas was seated in the sanctuary with the many bishops. 🙂 We did not get to see him, sadly, at the reception. Fr Loya thought the Abbot was probably off with the bishops.

His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos was seated in the sanctuary opposite the bishops. He had someone with him who may have been Archimandrite Apostolos. Sadly they disappeared before we could get their blessing.

It was a glorious day including the Blue Angels making about 5 passes over the Cathedral during the Mass. (I wonder if we’ve got some faithful Catholics in those cockpits.) It really doesn’t get any better here in the City by the Bay. 👍

I think I’ll be up half the night, I’m still so “high”! I think I said “I love being Catholic” about ten times this afternoon/evening. 🙂

P.S. His Facebook has linked to this from his excellent homily delivered in a combination of English and Spanish. I was hoping he would begin to speak in Spanish-- our first Spanish speaking Archbishop-- which he did often as Bishop in Oakland. (It will be interesting to see if any secular press mention his using both languages.)
 
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