On March 14, Catholic World Report released a video of Ignatius Press founder/editor Father Joseph Fessio, S.J. and Mark Brumley, president of Ignatius Press, discussing the election of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as Pope Francis on March 13.
Excerpt from Father Fessio’s comments:
In the pope’s “kingly or administrative role the most important characteristic of an administrator is the people that you hire.”
The appointment of bishops “improved under John Paul II, were even better under Benedict, and under Cardinal Ouellet, prefect of the congregation of bishops, will continue to produce good, strong, holy, articulate, courageous bishops around the world. Certainly here in California and the West Coast we’ve been abundantly blessed in the last two or three years with the new appointments.
“I think that is the key to a successful papacy for the long run because popes can’t run dioceses. Bishops are in charge of dioceses and the seminaries. And in the seminaries you form the young priests. So when you have a good bishop, you have a healthy church for 25 years. You have vocations, you have better formed priests, you have a liturgy which is more reverent, and the life of the faithful becomes energized.
“I’m old enough to be a cynic, but I have to say with John Paul II, then Benedict, and now Francis, I am very optimistic for the real life of the Church, especially on the West Coast of the U.S. and the rest of the U.S.”
See the video here.
NC Reporter blogger Pat Archbold, March 16, “Card. Mahony Tweets On Liturgy. So Do I. ”
@CardinalMahony: “Mass with Pope Francis: moving from HIGH Church to LOW and humble Church! What a blessing that we are encountering Jesus without trappings!”
#LiturgyMatters (Pat Archbold): ” ‘Humble’ liturgies are like ugly babies, you pretend to admire them to spare your host’s feelings. But the baby, while a miracle, is still ugly.
“He who rejects beauty in the mass doesn’t elevate the world but deforms heaven.
“Good liturgy is like clear glass, revealing the hidden beauty already there. Bad liturgy is like smoky glass, tough to see what’s really happening.
“Denying the beauty of the mass to the masses is sort of like denying food to the hungry. Actually, it is exactly like that.
“A Church truly dedicated to the poor would provide them the most magnificent liturgy possible.”
Sorry, National Catholic REGISTER.
My opinion of PFI would be when VP Biden presents himself for Communion, I believe he would be permitted to recieve and PFI would go along to get along.
I don’t think their handlers would permit this kind of confrontation.
In this whole mishmash of reporting, who are the orthodox and who are the progressives??????
Larry, I disagree with you completely about the Holy Father.
If one of these pro-abortion politicos tries to receive Holy Communion from Pope Francis, I believe he will give that person a blessing instead — just as Archbishop John Quinn of San Francisco did many years ago to a big shot from the City of San Francisco who pranced up to Communion. The person was furious and made a big scene afterwards in the media, but Archbishop Quinn remained calm and serene, gently pointing out why it was not approrpaite for that person to expect to receive the Eucharist from him — or from anyone else!
Good Bishops, who not only pray but teach their Diocese to read the “Bible” and the “Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition”, teach and handle PUBLIC SCANDAL publically – Canon 1399 & 1 Cor 5:11-13 – can do so much to improve the state of the Church within his own Diocese.
Those who do not enforce Canon 915 aid and abett in Sacrilege.
Rod, why in the WORLD would you quote Cardinal Mahony? He seems to be playing with his Tweets or Twits or Twitters every hour, telling people to “forget the past” (i.e., not hold him accountable for the coverups of pedophiliai) and now imagining that Pope Francis will celebrates Mass barefoot wearing sackcloth and ashes.
Listen to Father Fessio and others instead — you’ll have fewer worries and headaches!!!
Pray for Francis. Circumstances appear dreadful for Catholic Tradition, particularly given the central role that Cardinal Kaspar seems to be assuming. The Catholic Church on the West Coast is likewise in dire shape, by any type of reckoning. Having a bus-riding Pope seems nice, but solves nothing: seminaries (particularly in Argentina) are near empty, with some exceptions, save for those of Traditional Orders, including the SSPX. The homosexual sexual invastion of the Church is unabated, its cancer robbing the Church of its future. And the “people” so loved by Francis want nothing more than the end of the present Church (as do Cardinal Kaspar and the German/Austrian schismatic bishops): women priests, an end to celibacy, welcoming of homosexual couples, all of that. The crowds cheered for Jesus too, before they said “crucify Him” one week later. One must feel truly awful about Francis’s use of the card-table altar in the Sistine Chapel. What will he say about making his brother bishops implement Summorum Pontificum? “The Carnivale is over” seems like his answer.
EDITOR — LOVE your new look!
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God Bless Bishop Tom Daly, Bishop Vasa and Archbishop Cordileone. Thank you Benedict XVI for these good, strong, holy orthodox Bishops. We are so blessed on the West Coast of California to have them. Please God that everyone reading California Catholic Daily will keep them in their prayers, especially the Rosary.
And now Archbishop Sample coming to Portland Oregon and Bishop Cary already in eastern Oregon…so the West Coast is filling with holy Bishops!! Add them all to your prayer list.