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John Joseph Wright (July 18, – August 10, ) was an American Catholic prelate who served as Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy from until his death. He previously served as Bishop of Pittsburgh from to and as Bishop of Worcester from to He was elevated to the cardinalate in Here it is worth revisiting the career of Cardinal John J.

Wright (–) who, like McCarrick, was the subject of numerous stories about his own sexuality. Again, these came mostly from former seminarians and priests of the Pittsburgh diocese, which had a reputation during Wright’s decade there as a haven for actively gay clerics. The Duquesne University Archives is the home of the Cardinal John J. Wright Collection.

Cardinal Wright was the Bishop of Pittsburgh from He was also an American representative to Vatican II. The Wright Collection includes the Cardinal’s addresses, papers, sermons, writings, and personal library, with substantial material from the Second Vatican Council. To access the Wright. Born on October 22, , and ordained for the Pittsburgh by Bishop John Wright in , Fr.

Esposito was accused of sexually molesting a young boy for three years starting in when the boy was age 10 at Mother of Sorrows Parish in McKees Rocks. On March 18, Wright was installed as the eighth bishop of pittsburgh. He served as bishop of Pittsburgh until his creation as a cardinal priest on April 28, , with the titular church of Jesus the Divine Teacher. The diocese is deeply involved in evangelism, education, medical work, liturgy and peace and reconciliation.

Implosion of Pittsburgh Diocese Continues. In the early Sixties, I spent a day with John Wright, then the bishop of Pittsburgh, who loved to sweep around town in his chauffeured limousine, greeting people with his ring thrust forward for the kissing. The theme for today's Indaba groups was "the bishop and other churches", that is, ecumenism. It was interesting to hear the Sudanese argument, which made a parallel with the Sudan church's position on polygamy -- the church accepts lay persons in polygamous relationships but does not allow such persons to be ordained -- so it would be with homosexual persons.

Others would like to go straight to the controversial topics, in effect, denying the validity of the process of trust-building. Not everything has to be said or written about. We then walked over to the Franciscan Study Centre, where the religious community members of the Lambeth Chaplaincy Team are staying, to watch the BBC evening news to see how they covered the opening service. And now the bill has come due for DiNardo in the form of a police raid this week on his chancery.

At the end of the video, as a lead-in to Indaba group discussions on evangelism, Bishop Malik of Lahore spoke of how Christians in Pakistan were the first to provide earthquake relief to northern Pakistan, even to areas where there were no Christians whatsoever. Paul's, Jackson Michigan , whom I have known for 40 years, but whose refusal to accept the authority of the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church and whose comments about the Episcopal church most recently in the London Times considerably raise my normally low blood pressure.

He asked that we think of whom in the gathering we most feared, whom we were most nervous of, and go to them and ask them to pray with us. Covenant, properly understood and exercised, should produce neither "irreparable schism" nor "forced conformity". I cannot summarize his argument with justice but it put to rest the idea that covenant is uniformity.

The evening is free but I must prepare for our Church of Melanesia Council of Bishops meeting tomorrow during Conference time allocated for provincial meetings.

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He called Rowan forward and presented him the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, a high honour of the Patriarchate. Sign me up. There followed an excellent video prepared especially for the Conference of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai, founder of the Greenbelt Movement, talking eloquently and theologically about planting trees.

In its response, the diocese maintained Wuerl and Zubik were unaware of Paone's history of molestation, suggesting his file had been "misplaced. It was pleasant and I met some people I had been hoping to meet. This most certainly applies to all aspects including care. The retreat has one more half day, but it will be at the Conference venue. The Archbishop of Sudan is in the Indaba group and was strongest in his arguments -- that the Sudanese must go back with something that their people will accept, or else their authority will be eroded and they will face rebellion.

Priests were raping little boys and girls and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing: They hid it all. We then tried to identify common patterns of Anglican biblical interpretation. Our animateur is a no-nonsense bishop from South Africa. The Bishop of San Diego was most clear and eloquent on this issue. He indicated that the most important question was not what Lambeth was going to say, but "where is it going to speak from?

The whole event was, I thought, well planned and a pleasure to be a part of. Rowan's announcement was met with applause.