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"Even today there is no lack of "unworthy and treacherous Christians in the church," the pope said, so "it is up to each one of us to counteract the evil done by them" with a clear and faithful witness to Christ." – His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI |
Labels: Benedict XVI, Wisdom
posted by Fr LWG at 1:01 PM
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.
4 Comments:
A bit of a scary statement with a firm directive--I think it now and I thought it when first I read it. ... I cannot even imagine why those who are unworthy and treacherous -- whoever they are -- even bother practicing religion and being part of the church.
Hopefully those who are considered "unworthy and treacherous" really are not and only appear that way. (One can hope.)
The Pope has had much to contend with so far during the course of his reign.
Yes. And having to deal with politics -- both internal and external -- is a challenge for the Pope.
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