Overheard in the Sacristy: Benedict: Perfect Pastoral Model

Friday, December 15, 2006

Benedict: Perfect Pastoral Model

Benedict XVI doesn’t seek applause, he doesn’t harangue the crowds, but he’s still extremely popular. He himself has explained his secret: it is “obedience to the truth, not to the dictatorship of popular opinion” -- read more by Sandro Magister at chiesa.espressonline.it

http://www.chiesa.espressonline.it/dettaglio.jsp?id=103921&eng=y

My take: Popular opinion (the expression of liberalism) has taken us to the gates of Hell. Obedience to the Truth leads us to the Gates of Heaven!

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Name: Fr LWG

Location: Peoria, Arizona, United States

Fr Loren Gonzales is a priest of the Diocese of Phoenix AZ currently shepherding a parish in Peoria. Fr Gonzales received his MDiv from the Franciscan School of Theology of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley CA. He was ordained to the presbyterate by the late Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, + Most Rev Carl Fisher. He is a former member of the Order of Friars Servants of Mary (Servites). He has ministered in the Archdioceses of Denver and San Francisco, and the Dioceses of Oakland, Orange, and Tucson, where he has served the people of God as a catechist, campus minister, liturgist, musician, parochial vicar and vocation director. His an advocate of the Reform of the Reform.Two years ago he received faculties from the Bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix, + Most Rev Thomas Olmsted, to celebrate the Classical Liturgy according to the indult Ecclesia Dei. On September 14, 2007 Fr Gonzales celebrated a Missa Cantata in honor of His Holiness’ Motu Propio Summorum Pontificum. He celebrates the usus antiquor regularly. This blog, Overheard in the Sacristy, is inspired by his smattering of memoirs, Fifty Sophomoric Summers.

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Friday, December 15, 2006

Benedict: Perfect Pastoral Model

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