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Many years ago I was standing in the line leading to the ticket window of a movie theater on West Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C. waiting to buy a ticket to see the new movie, Dances with Wolves. It was during the afternoon break in our Fall Plenary meeting of the USCCB at the hotel just down the street. I have always had more than a passing interest in the history of the native American peoples.
A young priest came and got in line behind me accompanied by two seminarians studying for his diocese. He introduced himself. He was the young Bishop Charles Chaput, Bishop of Rapid City, South Dakota, who I had not yet met. We struck up a conversation during which he told me that as Bishop of Rapid City he had served as a consultant to the producers of the movie since he, being a Native American himself, had a good relationship with the Lakota tribe of the Sioux Nation. Our friendship has lasted these many years since even though we never see each other since my retirement in 1997.
He is a fine conservative bishop. An excellent choice for the See of Philadelphia. My congratulations to Archbishop Charles Chaput as he goes to Philadelphia to face new and daunting challenges, he will have plenty of opportunity to ‘dance with wolves’ as Bill Donohue points out in the following article.
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| CONGRATS TO ARCHBISHOP CHAPUTJuly 19, 2011http://www.catholicleague.org/release.php?id=2190
Catholic League president Bill Donohue responds to the news that Pope Benedict XVI has named Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput to be the new Archbishop of Philadelphia: This is great news. Anyone who knows Archbishop Chaput knows him as a man of integrity, brilliance and courage. Outspoken but never abrasive, he is quite capable of using the bully pulpit to rally the faithful. The Catholic League worked with Archbishop Chaput in 2006 to successfully defeat those who sought to single out the Catholic Church for retribution in the courts: when a bill to extend the statute of limitations on cases involving the sexual abuse of minors was finally amended to include public institutions, the public school establishment quickly got on board to kill this anti-civil libertarian measure. Thus was the mask pulled off those who claimed to be only interested in protecting adolescent males. The grand juries in Philadelphia that have cherry-picked their way through the legal system—never once investigating wrongdoing in other institutions, religious or public—are a disgrace. In particular, former Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham, who reneged on her pledge to investigate organizations other than the Catholic Church, has left the impression that Philadelphia is rife with miscreant priests. This is a lie. We await a fresh start and look forward to the day when the whole story is finally told. Congratulations to Archbishop Chaput. He has our unqualified support.
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ABYSSUS ABYSSUM INVOCAT / DEEP CALLS TO DEEP 