Congratulations to Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston! He was elected chairman of the Committee on Divine Worship in a 122-115 vote over Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit.
Among other things, Cardinal DiNardo is episcopal moderator to the National Association of Pastoral Musicians. Those of us who have served on the NPM Board and National Advisory Council have found him to be a wonderful, supportive presence to liturgical and musical ministers.
awr
Interesting – Vigernon proposed a draft on economics, etc. Many retired bishops (who can speak but not vote) emphatically critized the draft proposal on many points – sounded like it was written by the Acton Institute; ignored the 1986 Economic Pastoral, ignored the letters of Blair/Pate this fall; ignored unions, ignored the growing divide between haves and have nots, ignored most recent economic writings of B16, etc.
Subsequently, Vigernon loses this vote. Related?
@Bill deHaas – comment #1:
Since he’s twice before run for the office and twice before been defeated, it seems that the draft document isn’t neccesarily the cause.
I think I’m with SJH on this one – he’s run before.
But who knows what is in the mind of the bishops? Probably the economic statement didn’t help any. Although I thought he handled the discussion of it well, and graciously fielded questions and comments and suggestions and objections.
awr
Thanks – agree with you both. And also, he did handle the amendment process well – hope it has some impact going forward.
Okay – PTB is about liturgy but this is input just now about the vote on the economic/jobs proposal which is very concerning – from David Gibson:
“It was a no-win situation: if they had adopted such a poor document, that would have been critiqued, and if they did nothing, as they wound up, it looks bad. Moreover, it is four years after the recession began. The question is why they weren’t working on something four years ago. Why did they have to rush something out now?
The document is dead, says Dolan. (He was not a happy camper.) It would take a couple years to produce anything else, and Dolan doesn’t want the executive committee taking this on and becoming a target. The bottom line is the USCCB is so split that they just can’t produce anything of consequence on complex issues.”
Sorry, but sounds similar to the divide on liturgy except the *silent* majority appears to just cave on liturgy.
Added follow up from a just released article by Rembert Weakland:
http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/american-pastoral
He ends with a liturgical insight:
“I would like to point out that how we pray affects how we act. One of the deepest convictions of the founders of the Liturgical Movement in the first quarter of the twentieth century was that true liturgy, as the prophet Isaiah had already noted, must lead to the creating and nourishing of a peaceful and just society. Why have we forgotten this aspect of liturgical reform? Over the past two decades, out of a fear that liturgy was becoming too banal, too lacking in reverence or a sense of transcendence and prayerfulness, and out of a fear that the hierarchical nature of the church was being sacrificed to a democratic ethos guided by the whims of an uninformed assembly, the leaders of the church moved liturgical reform back toward a more devotional approach, reducing emphasis on the congregation. Perhaps it was inevitable that the hyper-individualism of American culture would result in placing the accent on personal devotion, which would win out over the more difficult task of building a sense of a community called to be nourished and challenged by God’s word. Social justice will thrive as the product of our worship only when the assembly is inspired to perform works of charity and justice as a community united by the Holy Spirit. We are far from implementing such a liturgical reform.”
(BTW – think back to the earlier post and video of Fr. Pflueger and now Archbishop Weaklands’s thoughts)
The bishops have become impotent.
Reason # 1: Sexual abuse crisis which they enabled
Reason # 2: Failure to call Law and his ilk to account.’
Reason # 3: Imposition of the Vox Clara 2010 with no resistance from the bishops.
Reason # 4: Bishops being totally in the tank for the RNC.
Reason # 5: Bishops squandering millions fighting marriage rights, which has been a done deal for years.
Reason # 6: Magical Thinking: Sending everyone including themselves to confession is going to fix everything that’s wrong with the church.
Bravo for Cardinal DiNardo!
This is excellent news. Cardinal DiNardo has both a good heart and a good brain.
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