Sunday, October 18, 2009

Inside Catholic Baseball

This is good. Really good.

B-16 named the church's "chief justice" ArchbishopRaymond Burke to the membership of the Congregation for Bishops, giving the 61 year-old prelate a seat at the dicastery's all-important Thursday Table, whose votes recommend prospective appointees to the Pope.

As a result, Burke's impact on the process and its outcomes could extend for two decades; normally renewed on a five-yearly basis, Curial memberships automatically cease at age 80 both for bishops and the college of cardinals, which the Wisconsin-born prefect of the Apostolic Signatura is likely to join at the next consistory, expected to take place sometime in mid-2010.

That is good. Cdl. Lllovera was also placed on that Congregation--even better.

HT: StLCatholic

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