{"id":1264,"date":"2006-06-09T14:04:40","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T14:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/speaking-of-vacant-sees.html"},"modified":"2006-06-09T14:04:40","modified_gmt":"2006-06-09T14:04:40","slug":"speaking-of-vacant-sees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/speaking-of-vacant-sees.html","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Vacant Sees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those of you interested in episcopal politics should have the invaluable Catholic Hierarchy website on your Favorites.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Here’s a list of vacant sees, and you can see from it that there are several still in the US:<\/a><\/p>\n

Sioux Falls since 12\/04<\/p>\n

Lake Charles, LA since 3\/05<\/p>\n

Youngstown, OH since 3\/05<\/p>\n

Birmingham, AL since 3\/05 <\/p>\n

Salt Lake since 12\/05<\/p>\n

Then, of course, Little Rock and Pittsburgh just from last month. <\/p>\n

One of the great mysteries of Catholic life is how some transitions take so long…and some don’t.<\/p>\n

(Another great feature of the Catholic Hierarchy site – on the diocesan pages, he’s got demographic breakdowns of the diocese from, if the diocese is that old, 1950 to the present. Quite interesting)<\/p>\n

The front page of the site also has an amusing disclaimer – <\/a>I don’t know if David is simply trying (successfully) to be funny, or if he’s really getting inquiries along that line…I wouldn’t be surprised….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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