Congratulations Archbishop-elect Lacroix!
Such good news yesterday! As one correspondent to me via email put it yesterday: Splendid! Another wrote: This is FANTASTIC news!
I watched Archbishop-elect Lacroix do his news conference yesterday via ECDQ.TV. He was relaxed, communicates extremely well on his feet, he exudes joy and seemed very comfortable in front of the cameras. He described himself as a pastor rather than a theologian, someone who wants to be with the people and who wants above all to share the Good News of Jesus Christ and invite everyone to a personal relationship with Him.
I spoke to him briefly yesterday and I will be writing up my story this morning.
Here's Rocco Palmo's take over at Whispers in the Loggia. I note that a link in his text takes to a previous post of his in which he quotes my last interview with Cardinal Ouellet extensively.
Good Tuesday morning... and with it, big news for our friends up North.
Appointed an auxiliary to Cardinal Marc Ouellet all of 22 months ago, this morning the Pope named 53 year-old Bishop Gérald Cyprien Lacroix as the new archbishop of Quebec in succession to the now-prefect of the all-powerful Congregation for Bishops.
A native son of the million-member Quebec church -- and, along the way, an alum of Manchester's St Anselm's College -- Lacroix (left) becomes its 25th chief shepherd, and primate of Canada as leader of North America's oldest diocese, whose foundation dates to 1658.
Given the nominee's launch from junior prelate to honorary first among equals of the Canadian bench, it can be gleaned that the media-friendly Lacroix -- a member of the Pius X Secular Institute, a new movement dedicated to redoubled efforts at evangelization -- embodies Ouellet's articulated model of his preferred qualities in episcopal leadership, which the cardinal has outlined as “men of faith... [with] the guts to help people live it out” and someone who's "audacious in proposing the Word and in believing in the Power of the Word and the power of the Spirit."
I watched Archbishop-elect Lacroix do his news conference yesterday via ECDQ.TV. He was relaxed, communicates extremely well on his feet, he exudes joy and seemed very comfortable in front of the cameras. He described himself as a pastor rather than a theologian, someone who wants to be with the people and who wants above all to share the Good News of Jesus Christ and invite everyone to a personal relationship with Him.
I spoke to him briefly yesterday and I will be writing up my story this morning.
Here's Rocco Palmo's take over at Whispers in the Loggia. I note that a link in his text takes to a previous post of his in which he quotes my last interview with Cardinal Ouellet extensively.
Baby Bishop... Northern Primate: On "Pope's Day," Hatman Strikes
Good Tuesday morning... and with it, big news for our friends up North.Appointed an auxiliary to Cardinal Marc Ouellet all of 22 months ago, this morning the Pope named 53 year-old Bishop Gérald Cyprien Lacroix as the new archbishop of Quebec in succession to the now-prefect of the all-powerful Congregation for Bishops.
A native son of the million-member Quebec church -- and, along the way, an alum of Manchester's St Anselm's College -- Lacroix (left) becomes its 25th chief shepherd, and primate of Canada as leader of North America's oldest diocese, whose foundation dates to 1658.
Given the nominee's launch from junior prelate to honorary first among equals of the Canadian bench, it can be gleaned that the media-friendly Lacroix -- a member of the Pius X Secular Institute, a new movement dedicated to redoubled efforts at evangelization -- embodies Ouellet's articulated model of his preferred qualities in episcopal leadership, which the cardinal has outlined as “men of faith... [with] the guts to help people live it out” and someone who's "audacious in proposing the Word and in believing in the Power of the Word and the power of the Spirit."
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link
« Home