.
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:
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.
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.
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.
Post a Comment