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NCYC 2013
November 21-23, 2013 - Indianapolis
Christ the King video #3!
For those of us who couldn’t be there, here’s Bishop Christopher Coyne’s homily at last night’s NCYC closing Mass in Indianapolis. Simply awesome.
Are you “the king of the hill”?
The November meeting is only a morning old, and already the bishops have announced two new websites that are up and running:
- The USCCB’s Marriage: Unique for a Reason, on why it still makes sense to say that marriage is only ever between one man and one woman.
- Project Rachel’s revamped Hope after Abortion site, for healing after grief.
The USCCB is live-tweeting the meeting, as are bishopcoyne and BishopSample from within.
A new US nuncio!
Finally! Pope Benedict just named Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, an Italian (obviously), as his nuncio to the US. We had been without one since July.
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The nuncio has a complicated job. Not only is he the Holy See’s ambassador to the United States, he’s also in charge of overseeing the extraordinarily complex process of funneling recommendations for new bishops to the Pope for his choice. (Traditionally, the nuncio sends a list of three names to Rome for the Pope to choose from one of them, though the Pope can of course ask for a new list, as happens occasionally.)
So if you’re in Fresno, Salina (KS), Baker (OR), Pensacola-Tallahassee, Steubenville, or Tyler (TX), you’re waiting for a new bishop and this can speed up the process!
But everyone’s eyes are even more on Denver, Baltimore, and Indianapolis, which are waiting on new archbishops.
I think Jesus would have to be a Muggle - “God became man” - one with us. ;-)
— Bishop Christopher Coyne (Indianapolis, aux.)
It’s Tough Being You When…
you’re a Boston-born bishop in Seattle for the USCCB meetings and the Bruins are playing in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals and you literally end up tweeting this:
The games not on in Seattle!!!! 5:00 PM news instead! Shoot me!!!
Say a little prayer for @bishopcoyne…
You are wicked awesome!
— Bishop Christopher Coyne (auxiliar bishop of Indianapolis) at the end of his episcopal ordination