Here is the NcR’s description of His Excellency:
The U.S. Catholic bishops on Nov. 11 elected Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley as the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during the conference's annual fall plenary assembly.
In addition to his diocesan duties, Coakley is also the ecclesiastical adviser to the Napa Institute, a conservative-leaning organization that often showcases a blend of piety and right-wing politics at its annual summer conferences.
In 2018, Coakley was among several American bishops who expressed support for Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò after the former Vatican ambassador to the United States accused Pope Francis of covering up sexual abuse and called on the pope to resign.
Viganò has since been excommunicated. Coakley has not retracted his statement where he expressed his "deepest respect" for Viganò's "personal integrity." In that statement, Coakley also called for an investigation and a "purification" of the church.
Coakley has also served as chairman of Catholic Relief Services and on several bishops' conference committees.
MY COMMENTS:
Heterodox, what some call progressives, will rend their garments over Archbishop Coakley’s election as the new USCCB’s President because of his involvement with the Napa Institute and that he praised the now disgraced and excommunicated, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, once the Papal Nuncio to the USA.
However, Cardinal Parolin also spoke highly of Archbishop Vigano. Thus the heterodox should temper their outrage:
7 comments:
"Heterodox, what some call progressives, will rend their garments over Archbishop Coakley’s election as the new USCCB’s President..."
Silly comment, equating "heterodox" and "progressive."
Be that as it may, I will not be rending my garments. You see, I knew Paul in the seminary - he was two years ahead of my ordination class. He's a holy man, a serious leader, and well-qualified for the position to which he has been elected.
His association with the Napa institute isn't that big a deal, if you know anything about it. At their 2024 Summer Conference, a speaker, Mene Ukuerberuwa, praised the "social justice warriors" among the Catholic clergy and religious who, "...marched alongside civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and participated in demonstrations and protests. Their involvement was a testament to the Church’s dedication to racial equality and justice."
You, on the other hand, lamented their actions.
That will really cause the heterodox to rend their garments that he went to your pre-Vatican II seminary!
Once again, your ignorance shows. Mount Saint Mary's hasn't been "pre-Vatican Two" since, well, the end of Vatican Two. I went to school there - you visited a few times. You know little or nothing about the school, and your comment reveals that.
I can’t say I give Abp Vigano really any credence, I hold a slightly less-low opinion of him based on Card Parolin’s view of him.
Nick
Don’t shoot the messenger, this was the message of my seminary’s theologians when I was there in the 1970’s. The general consensus then and now is that your seminary is pre-Vatican II! Sorry the truth disturbs you. Take it up with your pre-Vatican II seminary!
Your "seminary's theologians"??? All this time you've been stating here how shallow, how bereft of substance, how misguided, and how "heterodox" your seminary "theologians" were. And now you expect us to believe that you stand by their every word?
It is to laugh.
I know the truth about your seminary causes you anguish and embarrassment. I am glad you can vent your psychological distress on my blog. That is very therapeutic so kudos to you. But you should also vent with your spiritual director too. Good help is always beneficial.
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