The bishops of the United States will meet for a week-long retreat to reflect upon the current situation facing the Church in America. The meeting will take place early next year.
In a statement issued by the US bishops’ conference Oct. 23, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, USCCB president and Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, said that Pope Francis had offered the services of his personal preacher to direct the retreat.
“The Holy Father has kindly offered the preacher to the Papal Household, Reverend Raniero Cantalamessa, O.F.M. Cap., to serve as the retreat director as we come together to pray on the intense matters before us. For this, I am grateful,” DiNardo said.
The bishops will gather and at the University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Illinois, from January 2-8. The university houses the primary seminary for the Archdiocese of Chicago, often referred to simply as the Mundelein Seminary.
The announcement of the retreat comes as the American bishops prepare to meet in Baltimore in November for the general assembly of the US bishops’ conference. That meeting is widely expected to focus on how the Church can respond to the fallout of the scandal surrounding Archbishop Theodore McCarrick and the growing number of investigations into allegations of clerical sexual abuse in different states.
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Chicago area January weather can be quite a pennance. I hope all the events are planned for inside.
I hope all are planned for outside.
Peace and God bless
Do they need the pope”s preacher there? Preacher or spy?
I think the bishops should reflect as much on Vigano’s letters as anything else. Matters in the U.S. and in Rome are related as the same trouble afflicts both. And this would be a very good reason to ask Reverend Raniero Cantalamessa, O.F.M. Cap. to stay in Rome. At least some bishops are more likely to find their courage absent Francis’ man in the room.
I hope they stop trying to present the homosexuality problem as a child abuse problem.