\nAs a new coadjutor bishop, Finn made a round of visitations to the diocese\u2019s five regions. In homilies he spoke of what he thought was important.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this increasingly secular society, a contraceptive\/abortion culture has led to the sad deterioration of families. We as Catholics must focus on keeping married love together, with openness to children. This openness to children is an antidote to societal poisons,\u201d he told a gathering at the St. Joseph co-cathedral, according to reporting in The Catholic Key<\/em>.<\/p>\nCatholic education should be thoroughly and unashamedly Catholic, he said. Catholic schools should teach that salvation is achieved only through Jesus. Whether students are Catholic or not, the schools must teach Catholic doctrine and promote the rosary, the Stations of the Cross, the veneration of the saints and the use of sacramentals, such as, wearing religious medals, he said.<\/p>\n
Families should attend Mass together regularly and make frequent confession. The themes would be repeated again and again.<\/p>\n
At a Mass for Catholic school teachers and principals for the school year beginning in August 2004, Finn — still coadjutor then — admonished the teachers to help their students resist the \u201cculture of death\u201d and the \u201cage of relativism.\u201d He said: \u201cThere are objective truths. There is right and wrong. Holy Mother Church is our mother who loves us and she knows best. Catholic schools must be places where these moral truths are taught without variation and without ambiguity for the sake of souls and salvation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finn\u2019s first public liturgical act as ordinary was to lead a Corpus Christi procession in midtown Kansas City. A couple of weeks later at the Kansas City Catholic Conference, he talked about how thrilling it was to carry Christ in a monstrance through the city streets at the head of 2,000-strong procession that included altar boys in cassocks and surplices and Knights of Columbus in full regalia.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a beautiful expression \u2026 a great display of faith. It brought Christ into the world in a visible way,\u201d Finn said. \u201cWe lifted him up in the streets of our city.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Freak!<\/p>\n
Via Bill Cork<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An odd duck, that Bishop Finn. NCR has put up another of its pieces from this week up, available for non-subscribers As a new coadjutor bishop, Finn made a round of visitations to the diocese\u2019s five regions. In homilies he spoke of what he thought was important. \u201cIn this increasingly secular society, a contraceptive\/abortion culture…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
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