Lex is down with a cold. I just wanted to say a word about the passing of a great man, Bishop John D’Arcy. Bishop D’Arcy served the Diocese of Ft. Wayne – South Bend from 1985 – 2010.
Bishop D’Arcy had battled cancer with great strength, faith and character for the last three years. In his last interview, he’d come to accept his fate with the grace of a man of great faith. There was no woe-is-me, can’t something be done, I have so much to give etc. etc. He seemed content with the hand he’d been dealt and gracefully exited this world as he had lived in it since his studies for the priesthood began in 1949 – a faithful and humble servant of God.
Bishop D’Arcy will be laid to rest this afternoon in a crypt beneath the alter of the Ft. Wayne Cathedral. R.I.P.
Who will stand?
In what may have been the first shot fired in the US Council of Catholic Bishops' fight with the Obama administration, Bishop D’Arcy openly boycotted President Obama’s graduation speech at Notre Dame due to Obama’s stance on abortion.
It seems to me that, so far, the US Council of Catholic Bishops is one of the most powerful voices that hasn’t yet caved to the bullying and demonizing of the lapdog media, Hollywood know nothings and Washington D.C. elites. The USCCB has just denounced the latest accommodations HHS has offered with regard contraceptive mandates.
Our new Bishop Kevin C. Roades has drawn a four word line in the sand, “We will not comply.” I think he means it. No doubt the lapdogs will be digging deeper and deeper to turn up a new Catholic scandal. There is hope. As Father David Mary told us, “If the Catholic clergy couldn’t destroy God’s church from within for over 2,000 years, what chance does the government have?”
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