There has been only one news agency, CNA, owned by EWTN/National Catholic Register, to report that credible sources indicate the 72 Year old Archbishop Wilton Gregory will be the next Archbishop of Washington, DC.
Every news agency that also reports this is drawing from the CNA report.
Rocco Palma, who is well connected, has tweeted NADA nor has the National Chismatic Reporter, who would be jubilant if true.
Was CNA yanking our chains to gather reactions???
Thus, I must break this bombshell news from my reliable incredible source this April First, the new Archbishop of Washington, DC soon to be acclaimed is Bishop Thomas A. Daly of Spokane, which is in Washington!
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Now that kind of orthodox, solid appointment has a snowball's chance in hell.
Happy April 1st to us fools...
Yes, TJM, like the chance of my (regrettfully) ultraliberal congressman, John Lewis of Atlanta, losing to a Republican in an 85 percent Democratic district...or Richmond Hill going a summer without hitting 90 degrees...or the Episcopal Church coming to its senses!!! Or Jack Nicklaus at age 79 winning the Masters this year!
Frankly, sending Soft Wilton to Washington D.C. isn't much in the way of news. He's status quo and exactly in the mediocre mold of Francisbishops. Besides, he's a stopgap bishop. In four years, he has to resign.
Now if Daly was sent to ATLANTA! Wow! Now THAT would be great! The beginning of a reform and cleanup that, no doubt, would take years, but is badly needed and might even be a kick in the behind for Savannah.
Stop teasing us Father. It's too painful to play, "what if?"
Anonymous,
Dems always tell us that gerrymandering is bad so how come Lewis has such a non-competitive district? Could it be due to gerrymandering? Or is gerrymandering bad only when it hurts the Abortion Party?
Two responses:
With regard to TJM and gerrymandering: Voting Rights Act requires preservation of minority legislative and congressional districts out of past discrimination. SO you could say, a certain number of minority districts each time redistricting is done. But even if VRA were not the case, Fulton County (where much of Lewis's district) is located is so heavily Democratic (think on a smaller scale of Cook County, Illinois---Chicago), he would have a heavily Democratic district anyway. The last time Fulton County voted Republican for president, LBJ and Harry Truman were still alive (though barely)---the 1972 Nixon landslide. You could drive for miles in parts of metro Atlanta and not cross a single Republican precinct (like driving Interstate 20 across Fulton and DeKalb Counties), Lewis's district also includes white liberal areas like Emory and Druid Hills. Unfortunately, his abortion record is terrible, but someone as conservative as you or AJM cannot get elected in his district. No way....
With regard to Henry Miller: No, if WDG goes to DC, he might not have to resign in 4years. He could be made a cardinal---and they usually stay active til age 80. I don't know how long Washington has been an archdiocese, but the last 3 or 4 at least have become cardinals. And what exactly needs to be "cleaned up" in Atlanta and Savannah? Something wrong at your parish?
You're right. And knowing THIS pope, he WOULD be made a cardinal at the next consistory.
As for your question Anonymous, WHAT needs to be cleaned up in Atlanta and Savannah?
Well, if I mention anything in Savannah, Fr. will censor me, so I'll stick to Atlanta: Wilton Gregory has allowed the whole LGBT clericalism to take over the diocese.
That's just for starters.
Anonymous,
I find the Voting Rights Act offensive and discriminatory and an historic anachronism given that we have had African-Americans in the presidency, key cabinet posts, including SOS, supreme court justices, senators, and congressmen, etc. I particularly find organizations like the Congressional Black Caucus and the Black Miss America Contest, repugnant and racist. These are with us still today largely due to liberal whites who are guilty of racist with their soft bigotry of low expectations.
I am not certain that the Voting Rights Acts will survive in the long term, given this statement of Justice Roberts in the Shelby County v Holder decision:
“Nearly 50 years later, things have changed dramatically,” Roberts wrote. “The tests and devices that blocked access to the ballot have been forbidden nationwide for over 40 years.”
“Striking down an Act of Congress ‘is the gravest and most delicate duty that this Court is called on to perform.’ We do not do so lightly,” he continued. “That is why, in 2009, we took care to avoid ruling on the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act when asked to do so, and instead resolved the case then before us on statutory grounds. But in issuing that decision, we expressed our broader concerns about the constitutionality of the Act. Congress could have updated the coverage formula at that time, but did not do so. Its failure to act leaves us today with no choice but to declare §4(b) unconstitutional. The formula in that section can no longer be used as a basis for subjecting jurisdictions to preclearance.”
Another example of left-wing racism, this times from an alleged "news" network, CNN:
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/04/02/cnn-reporter-three-white-men-leading-democratic-primary-polls/
Why doesn't one of the resident lefties respond to this "tolerance" from members of THEIR party? Is this hate speech?
Henry says LGBT clericalism has taken over the Archdiocese of Atlanta. In what way? Is he saying their is a "gay pipeline" into the seminaries from here? A bunch of radicals in our pulpits? There are lots of seminarians studying for the Archdiocese---dozens---are we to assume a lot of them are subversive? Yes, I hear complaints about that culture at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception downtown, but not all across the Archdiocese.
What other reforms? Women off the altar? The altars turned back to pre-Vatican 2 days?
AS for TJM and VRA, originally VRA was passed in 1965 to give blacks the right to vote, a right at that time that clearly was being denied to most blacks in Alabama and Mississippi, and to a large extent in rural Georgia. But critics says it has become a sort of "racial spoils" system and may inflate the partisan divide in this country. Heavily black districts tend to elect very far-left politicians (think like John Lewis here in Atlanta, who opposes the death penalty for heinous criminals but supports it for the unborn, or years ago, the crazed Cynthia McKinney). On the other hand, surrounding districts are mostly white and often elect far-right politicians. I think the basic premise---the right to vote regardless of race---will survive, and of course should survive---but quotas for legislative districts may be another matter.
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