Tuesday, November 18, 2008

A Good Sign: Young Bishops

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I've long gotten used to U.S. Bishops being younger than me; but here comes one young enough to have been my son; born 1962. Barry C. Knestout, a priest of Washington, D.C., made Auxiliary Bishop of that arch diocese this morning.

Unfortunately it will still take some time to rejuvenate the episcopacy.

3 comments:

Margaret said...

One problem with young bishops is that they have decades ahead of them to scandalize the church. Two examples: Thomas Gumbleton, the radical activist who was ordained a an auxiliary bishop in the Detroit Archdiocese in the 70s and James Shannon, the guy who left the church over birth control.

Unknown said...

Margaret: I was thinking about mentioning Gumbleton, but didn't want to remind people of him.

I should have clarified my point to mention that these new young bishops were born after Vatican II and are far less like to be infected with the modernism/relativism that resulted as a side effectfrom the Council.

Bishop Knestout was ordained in 1989, just about at the end of the epidemic. That's the year that Father Robert Altier was ordained.

A WASHINGTONDC CATHOLIC said...

By all indications from those in the parish where he was stationed as pastor, Msgt. Knestout was a good pastor. He really cared about his parishioners, always making time for them, and especially for the school children in the parish schoo.