Fr. White & Bishop Knestout - Some Interesting Comments...

 

Although Fr. White and Bishop Knestout are no longer part of the Archdiocese of Washington and are now both part of the Diocese of Richmond, their story has roots here.   

Fr. Z gives an update to the story on his blog, but what I find really interesting are the comments.  

This leads me to my original premise that something happened between them.  Could it have been the sermon on Humanae Vitae?   Could Fr. White have been called to meet in Hyattsville over this with +Knestout?

As I have said, and others speculate, there is much more to what is going on in Richmond than meets the eye.  And the roots to the matter are here in this Archdiocese. 

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On a separate note to the person who sends me the long, rambling comments.  Thank you for reading.  However, if you are interested in being published, please stay on the topic and not go off to all sorts of other stuff.  Thanks.

 

Fr. Mark White: Interview by Church Militant

 Fr. Mark White, a priest in the Diocese of Richmond, was recently interviewed by Church Militant.

As some of you know, Fr. Mark White was ordained in the Archdiocese of Washington by Cardinal McCarrick.  Also, as you know, Bishop Knestout was part of the Archdiocese of Washington, at the time.  

At some point, Fr. White asked to leave the diocese and managed to be reassigned to the Diocese of Richmond.  A few years later, Bishop Knestout was assigned as the Bishop of the Diocese of Richmond.

It is interesting to watch, but what I found most interesting, starting at the 29 min. mark, was something mentioned by Fr. White.  He talks about a comment made by Bishop Knestout about an "old wound."   

Now, in my conversations with Melvin, when all of this started, I discussed the fact that I believe that something happened between Fr. White and Bishop Knestout (or maybe Cardinal Wuerl) at some point, while both were in the Archdiocese of Washington, but I don't know for certain.  This may be what Bishop Knestout referred to?

In addition, I speculated to Melvin, that Fr. White might know something, that others are worried that may come out.  Fr. White alludes to this.

Listen to all of it, or at least from the 29 min. mark to the end. 

 

Will Bishop Knestout Follow Suit?

Springfield, IL Bishop has stated that Senator Durbin is not to be admitted to Holy Communion.

His statement:

I agree completely with His Eminence, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Life Activities, who called the U.S. Senate’s failure to pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act “appalling.”

Fourteen Catholic senators voted against the bill that would have prohibited abortions starting at 20 weeks after fertilization, including Sen. Richard Durbin, whose residence is in the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. In April 2004, Sen. Durbin’s pastor, then Msgr. Kevin Vann (now Bishop Kevin Vann of Orange, CA), said that he would be reticent to give Sen. Durbin Holy Communion because his pro-abortion position put him outside of communion or unity with the Church’s teachings on life. My predecessor, now Archbishop George Lucas of Omaha, said that he would support that decision. I have continued that position.


Now, the newly elected Bishop of Richmond (formerly of the Archdocese of Washington) has Tom Kaine (D-VA) in his diocese.  Sen. Kaine was one of the 14 who voted against the Act.  

We know that during the 2016 presidential campaign,  Tom Kaine was welcomed with open arms in his parish (even got a standing ovation).  Sen. Kaine was also at the installation of Bishop Knestout.  

So the question is: What will Bishop Knestout do?  Will he follow suit?  Will he go and speak with Sen. Kaine (and his pastor)?  

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Note that I try not to comment upon matters outside of this diocese but Bishop Knestout was not only born and raised here, but was one of our bishops.

A Young Man Studying for the Diocese of Richmond at the Theological College in DC

When you know that God wants you to do something, it's pretty easy to just go ahead and do that," said Nicholas Redmond, a second-year seminarian in the Theological College in Washington, DC.

Redmond is a University of Virginia graduate who taught at Albemarle High School for 10 years. Now, he's among 21 seminarians preparing to become a priest in the Diocese of Richmond, which has more than 235,000 registered Catholics.

"It came to a culmination in the summer of 2011 where I really got a smack upside the head that God wanted me to enter the seminary," he said.

Click here for the entire story: http://www.newsplex.com/home/headlines/UVa-Grads-among-Higher-Number-of-Catholic-Seminary-Students-241197671.html