tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9437006.post7164155002896527399..comments2008-07-01T15:27:49.211-05:00Mark Scott Abelnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06692448528819277158noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9437006.post-70929282020154685482008-07-01T15:14:00.000-05:002008-07-01T15:14:00.000-05:00Mark, how would you feel about Bishop Hermann becoming Archbishop? Born Raised and Educated in the Archdiocese....the boy from Weingarten???Pumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643316680350255931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9437006.post-62110164427058706752008-06-27T20:09:00.000-05:002008-06-27T20:09:00.000-05:00Mark, thank you for putting into words thoughts and feelings I have been struggling to express. I work very hard as a catechist to impute upon my candidates the truth as laid out in the CCCC and the documents of the councils. I sit in team meetings harassed, very subtly mind you, about wanting to go back to a time of oppression for women, men being forced into the priesthood and magisterial oppression. I have been brought to near tears at the vitriol spewed out upon such holy men as Archbishop Burke, my own Bishop Robert Finn, Archbishop Nauman and all the true defenders of Faith.<BR/><BR/>I fight a desperate fight to maintain the tenacious hold I have on my own faith. Knowing men like Burke and Finn are out there fighting just as hard to keep the Church holy and one, gives me courage to continue my own fight.<BR/><BR/>May God bless us all.Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745048971495486719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9437006.post-10794823715412213082008-06-27T15:34:00.000-05:002008-06-27T15:34:00.000-05:00Irene, if you are referring to the once Polish parish of St. Stans....I believe that the Bishop was/in attempting to bring a renegade parish back into the fold...I prefer to see it as tough love!!!Pumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643316680350255931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9437006.post-56235747755546604002008-06-27T14:23:00.000-05:002008-06-27T14:23:00.000-05:00Of course I have only hearsay knowledge of the good Archbishop. And much of the hearsay - at both extremes - has been hate.<BR/><BR/>But if there is any truth to the actions I have seen imputed to him, both in the press and on the net, they have not been exactly free of hate either.Irenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17962225409443023414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9437006.post-22563100455503630792008-06-27T11:06:00.000-05:002008-06-27T11:06:00.000-05:00I did a quick search of St Louis area news sites and see that a lot of hate speak is flowing about the Archbishop. While I don't live in St. Louis or the Archdiocese what I have heard of the him has been encouraging because he has been a defender of the faith in a very hate filled world. When I was much younger a man like him would have aggrevated me terribly. Because he has a very strong tendency to tell it like it is. It is my hope that "St. Louis" will get a strong and vibrant replacement for Archbishop Burke!!Pumahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11643316680350255931noreply@blogger.com