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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Secret trips
"A Life With Karol," a new book by the late Pope John Paul II's secretary, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow, Poland, reveals that the Polish pope made more than 100 secret trips to ski or hike in the mountains of Italy.
Good for him. Imagine not being able to go anywhere without crowds? Of course he would have to go on secret trips. but they weren't totally secret -- just kept secret from the press.
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.
3 Comments:
Good for him. Imagine not being able to go anywhere without crowds? Of course he would have to go on secret trips. but they weren't totally secret -- just kept secret from the press.
Tough to find someone in an avalanche if they are wearing all white!
Good for him. At least he did nothing more secretive than skiing!!
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