Cordileone To San Francisco

[Lil Red]

[url="http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2012/07/b16s-bombshell-by-bay-marriage-chief.html"]From Whispers in the Loggia[/url]
Depending on how one looks at things, this Friday morning brings either the most courageously bold -- or stunningly brazen -- American appointment in the seven-year reign of Pope Benedict XVI.

For the better part of the [url="http://catholic-sf.org/news_select.php?newsid=30&id=59755"]last four months,[/url] the machinery of the archdiocese that -- at least, under normal circumstances -- many US bishops consider the nation's most daunting episcopal assignment has [url="http://www.sfarchdiocese.org/media/media-releases/June%208%2C%202012%20process%20when%20new%20AB%20appointed.pdf"]quietly prepared[/url] its 450,000 members for a transition at the top. Yet while the pontiff's selection of the ninth archbishop of San Francisco had almost universally been expected by late June, an apparent delay was explained by credible reports of a backroom Roman "fight" over the state and direction of the famously progressive local church.

Now, finally, the dust has cleared... and even for a city well-accustomed to seismic activity, the ecclesial Richter Scale both by the Bay and well beyond is about to record a right whopper.

A "major announcement on the future of the archdiocese" already set for 10am local time at [url="http://www.stmarycathedralsf.org/"]St Mary's Cathedral,[/url] at Roman Noon the pontiff named Bishop [b][url="http://www.oakdiocese.org/diocese/bishop"]Salvatore Cordileone[/url],[/b] 56 -- the San Diego-born head of the neighboring Oakland church since 2009, and [url="http://www.marriageuniqueforareason.org/2011/11/14/welcome-from-bishop-cordileone/"]lead hand[/url] behind the US bishops' [url="http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/marriage-and-family/marriage/promotion-and-defense-of-marriage/"]national effort[/url] to defend the traditional definition of marriage -- to succeed Archbishop [url="http://www.sfarchdiocese.org/about-us/archbishop/archbishops-column/"]George Niederauer,[/url] who reached the retirement age of 75 in June 2011.
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For liberal Catholics, meanwhile, the appointment is likely to be received as something akin to the city's Great Earthquake of 1906, or even more apocalyptic events. In a nutshell, an appointment of this dramatic, potentially explosive nature is enough to make even [url="http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2011/07/running-supertanker-eastern-edition.html"]last year's blockbuster move[/url] in the States -- likewise a final US move of the Curia's annual work-cycle -- appear almost mild by comparison.

Either way, as the onetime lawyer at the Vatican's "supreme court" (his surname Italian for "lion heart") crosses the Bay Bridge with a mandate to reshape the House of Quinn with his own distinctive style and emphases over a tenure that could well extend over two decades, it seems pretty safe to say that, this morning, progressive Catholicism on these shores has a new leading [i]bete noire[/i] -- and one who'll be around and kicking for quite some time, at that.
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In his charge until today, the trained canonist -- likewise a [url="http://www.institute-christ-king.org/news/187/109/Pontifical-Mass-in-Oakland/"]firm supporter[/url] of the pre-Conciliar Extraordinary Form of the Roman rite -- made further waves on the charged issue of homosexuality in the church with a call earlier this year for a national ministry association for Catholic gays and lesbians based in his diocese [url="http://ncronline.org/news/spirituality/gay-ministry-group-refuses-sign-oath"]to sign oaths of "personal integrity"[/url] in response to a list of concerns that, according to published reports, included a passage in the group's materials that lamented the "negative language" of church documents on same-sex activity, and its use of the terms "gay" and "lesbian."
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Back by the Bay, meanwhile, per the norms of the canons Archbishop-elect Cordileone must be installed in the modern landmark known by locals as "St Mary Maytag" within two months of this morning's announcement. In the meanwhile, the Golden Gate nominee is to spend at least part of the coming weekend to the north of the Bay Area, where he's scheduled to celebrate a Tridentine Mass on Sunday at the annual summer conference of the [url="http://www.napa-institute.org/"]Napa Institute[/url] -- a think-tank of prominent American Catholic conservatives.

[dUSt]

Dope.

[Slappo]

Definitely dope!

[Amppax]

Edited July 27, 2012 by Amppax

[CatherineM]

Archbishop Quinn did my confirmation. He's a good man, but did a bit more compromise than I would have. He went there in time for the beginning of the AIDS crisis, and trying to teach compassion for those with the illness, slid into something else, I think before he realized what was happening.

[Norseman82]

OK, how many other people read it as "Corleone" at first?

Edited July 27, 2012 by Norseman82

[Amppax]

[quote name='Norseman82' timestamp='1343426681' post='2459461']
OK, how many other people read it as "Corleone" at first?
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See my post above.