DC has managed to survive three lousy archbishops in a row now so I guess it could handle a fourth. Sad for the Catholics who live there though, having to put up with this.
DC has managed to survive three lousy archbishops in a row now so I guess it could handle a fourth. Sad for the Catholics who live there though, having to put up with this.
We who live here are fine with Gregory. Only once did one of our archbishops take an action that caused a lasting alienation of some conservative Catholics, and that was Archbishop O'Boyle in 1949.
I lived and worked in DC for a good many years and only relocated a few years ago due to work. I still have Catholic friends there and let's just say their experience and mine was different from yours, not only with respect to Gregory but with respect to Wuerl by the end of his tenure as well, and of course absolutely no one is happy about McCarrick. This is obviously a matter on which reasonable minds can differ, but if you seriously think every Catholic down there is fine with all the recent archbishops, you're ignoring a lot of people.
I didn't mean to imply everyone here was fine with leadership. But I can't find anyone as irate as the conservatives were in 1949. Subsequent woes seem mild.
DC has managed to survive three lousy archbishops in a row now so I guess it could handle a fourth. Sad for the Catholics who live there though, having to put up with this.
We who live here are fine with Gregory. Only once did one of our archbishops take an action that caused a lasting alienation of some conservative Catholics, and that was Archbishop O'Boyle in 1949.
I used to live in DC. McCarrick alienated quite a few people. Not the wealthier John Carroll Society set, but plenty of others.
But let's be real. No Bp anywhere ever made everyone happy. And none anywhere was ever perfect in their management.
I agree. But I think only O'Boyle 1949 resulted in any measurable number of folks bolting the Archdiocese.
Desegregating the schools?
Yep.
I lived and worked in DC for a good many years and only relocated a few years ago due to work. I still have Catholic friends there and let's just say their experience and mine was different from yours, not only with respect to Gregory but with respect to Wuerl by the end of his tenure as well, and of course absolutely no one is happy about McCarrick. This is obviously a matter on which reasonable minds can differ, but if you seriously think every Catholic down there is fine with all the recent archbishops, you're ignoring a lot of people.
I didn't mean to imply everyone here was fine with leadership. But I can't find anyone as irate as the conservatives were in 1949. Subsequent woes seem mild.