It is easy to get cynical about Bishops, and then one of them does something like this:
Now This Is a Bishop
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Indeed! +Scharfenberger is a breath of fresh air.
Fr Z fisked a letter to the editor of the Times-Union from a Unitarian minister objecting to the Bishop’s remarks at an interfaith gathering because it was full of Catholic theology and [gasp!] mentioned Hell.
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2014/10/shock-a-catholic-bishop-who-speaks-like-gulp-a-catholic-bishop/
I once visited Del Angelo Diocese of Texas and joined the bishop there praying the rosary before an abortion clinic! they are doing it – accompanying their flock but are not concerned if media people notice them or not…
I knew His Excellency in all of his time here in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, NY, as Msgr Scharfenberger, so he was made to be, by God, a Bishop, to revitalize the Moribund Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, NY. “Scharf”, is missed here in Queens.