Roman Catholic Bishops

"One of the most learned members of the Catholic hierarchy in the United States; his numerous lectures, essays and treatises exhibit the versatility and accuracy of his knowledge."

"The greatness of his mind and heart are reflected in the management of his diocese and in untold charities."

"Bishop Manogue took a leading part in public affairs and was a successful arbitrator between the mine owners and the miners in their conflicts. He was of large stature, of a humorous turn of mind, and a good musician."

"It is my personal conviction that inculturation proper goes hand in hand with the emergence of the local clergy who are born and bred and work in their milieu. Such men will know and understand both their own traditional culture and Christ's gospel message. This is to say the promotion of local diocesan priests forms an essential part of inculturation."

"Bishop Bradley was a man of tireless activity and rare sanctity. For almost twenty years he devoted his best efforts to the cause of religion in New Hampshire, and with wonderful success."

"His rule was peaceful, and his devotion to the sick, during a time of pestilence, won the respect of the cabildo."

"So the whole area of corruption has to be addressed. We have many resources, not only minerals, but also our good land, and our educated people, but it hasn’t been coming together."

"Under the energizing influence of his zeal and enthusiasm there was a general upbuiliding of Catholicism throughout the State."

"The fulfillment of the Commandment of Love indicated by Christ and the exercise of this commandment in truth and concreteness is essential for salvation. And the most effective way to salvation is the recognition of the Kingship of Christ in Faith."

"A group of English loyalists emigrated from the United States, planned the scheme of a mixed university, under the name of Royal Institution, for Catholics and Protestants alike, to be subsidized out of the revenues of the Jesuits' estates, an organization investing the State with the entire control of education and destined to destroy the faith and nationality of French Canadians. Bishop Hubert, in spite of opposition from unexpected quarters, successfully thwarted the plan"

"With an eye to the future he endeavored to provide for the growth of his diocese by bringing Catholic immigrants from European countries to the fertile plains of Minnesota. Withal he did not neglect his ministerial and pastoral office."

"The research into symbols is essential to interpret the supernatural world, not only the one outside us but also the one inside us through the sanctifying grace and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Keeping in mind the love of Africans for rituals, it is important that their meaning interiorises the values involved."

"He had an active and successful career, building up parishes in a wide and sparsely settled section of north-western Missouri. As soon as he took charge of the Diocese of St. Joseph, his zeal and earnestness gave a new impetus to the affairs of the Church there, and the same was manifest with his advent to Kansas City."

"His reception by clergy and laity was most enthusiastic. Under his able administration great progress has been made in the material to well as in the spiritual upbuilding of the diocese."

"During nearly twenty years of devoted work for the church he won the esteem of thousands of its best citizens."

"His administration was marked by piety, zeal, and providential prudence."

"The new prelate has evidently brought with him the same prudence, zeal, and administrative ability that marked his career as a priest, and his work thus far has already borne rich fruit."

"And because she is not given as slave-girl or as one to lord it over him, in the beginning she was not formed either from the highest part, nor from the lowest, but from the side of man, for the sake of conjugal partnership. If she had been made from the highest, as from the head, she might seem created for domination; but if from the lowest, as from the feet, she might seem to be created for subjection to slavery. But because she is taken neither as mistress, nor as slave-girl, she is made from the middle, that is, from the side, because she is taken for conjugal partnership."

"It may be said of him that he combined the qualities of firmness and gentleness to a degree rarely found in the same individual; strong and unyielding when confident of the justice and propriety of any position he took, he was at the same time kind and courteous to those from whom he differed. Proofs of his executive ability, his piety, and his self-sacrificing zeal abound throughout the diocese over which God called him to rule, and which he left in better condition than it had known for some years."

"The maintenance of religion and its ministers in Spain and her colonies was not an act of mere piety or generosity towards the Church, but a partial and meagre compensation to the Church for repeated spoliations, particularly during the last century."

"It is because their labors are undertaken in obedience to Divine inspiration that Religious Communities are able to render humanity a kind of service that is incomprehensible to unaided human reason. To fit themselves for such service men and women deliberately relinquish even the most legitimate pleasures of the human heart. They leave father and mother and kindred, they sacrifice the opportunity to make for themselves the home of their choice, that they may give their affection, their energy, their ability, their all, to God, in the person of His little ones, His sick, and His poor. They bind themselves by the three holy vows of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience — and the world looks on and does not understand, for to the world the ascetic life is folly, even though it was by the practice of these virtues that Christ redeemed the world."

"Under his guidance the diocese continues to grow steadily and healthily."

"Pious and benevolent was the third bishop, the Dominican Bartolomé de Ledesma, who ruled from 1581 to 1604, and left a distinguished name as a writer and patron of education."

"Prayers are inspiring and sometimes challenging. To "pray and ask, to ask and pray" is to find the answer in God."

"After the advent of Bishop Timon fallen-away Catholics began to return to the Church, and many non-Catholics embraced the Faith. His missions and his lectures in all the towns of the diocese awakened an interest in Catholic teaching and practice."

"We must help the Ati in prayer, encourage them, pay tribute to them, support them financially and legally."

"The Abbé Provencher, founded on the banks of the Red River the first Western Canadian missions beyond the pale of civilization. Two years later he was consecrated bishop, and for the remaining years of his life Bishop Provencher multiplied his labours, called to his aid assistants, and sent missionaries as far as British Columbia."

"As Bishops we do not propose any candidate. We allow Christians to choose to make their choice in freedom of mind and conscience. The elections are a tool to have a democratic alternation to bring about change."

"Bishop Prince showed untiring activity."

"For many years the bishop was an invalid and a great sufferer, but he kept up his activities to the end and before his death on 13 February, 1866, saw the prosperity of the diocese increased nearly threefold."

"In recent decades, the staffing of the Catholic Schools in my area is almost totally carried out by lay people. In the main, our staff are dedicated to the schools and their Catholicity. This demands not only a competence in the area of teaching and communication but also a lifestyle which is in keeping with the Catholic teachings and doctrine taught."

"A gifted administrator, an admired orator, an extremely zealous and holy bishop, Bishop O'Sullivan travelled and laboured unceasingly in the diocese, and left to posterity a monument of noble results, temporal and spiritual, quietly and unostentatiously achieved."

"The most striking figure in the early history of Catholicity in the Diocese of Charlottetown."

"Highland Scottish Catholics were settled along the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. For the greater part of the time they were without a priest, save for the occasional visits of the Rev. Angus Bernard MacEachern afterwards Bishop of Charlottetown, P. E. I., who braved the perils of the sea in an open boat to bring them the consolations of religion."

"We love our neighbour because of the image of God in them, and as able to be our associates in beatitude. Sinners and our enemies therefore may not be excluded from this common love, or from the ordinary exterior marks of it, and we must be prepared to show them more special love when necessary."

"This institution... with rules and constitutions under the authority of the Holy See, has for its special object the domestic and industrial training of girls (chiefly of the working class) with the view to promote peace and happiness in families, in union with and in imitation of the Holy Family of Nazareth."

"As a Church we want to give a future to the younger generations, especially trying to change the traditional mindset that is the basis of conflicts between herdsmen. Our hope lies mainly in the education of young men and women."

"In the short space of two years and nine months he proved himself to be a zealous, indefatigable worker, and charitable to an extreme."

"The lives of the missionaries who are devoting themselves exclusively to the native population are lives of intense isolation, but their personal sufferings and inconveniences count for little when there are souls to be saved."

"Corruption is a virus that swallows up everyone's life: doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists. It is swallowing up the life of innocent citizens. Due to the incidence of corruption, the country continues to deteriorate: patients who die at the hands of immoral doctors; buildings that collapse due to jackal engineers; money lost at the hands of incompetent economists and accountants. Humanity dies because of incompetent scholars and justice goes to the hands of unscrupulous judges."

"His ministrations among the poor Italians of Chicago were remarkably successful. It was with profound regret that they saw him removed to the chancellorship of the archdiocese, after seven years of unselfish labour."

"The new bishop, finding the material interests of the diocese so well administered by his predecessor, continued the good work thus begun and developed it also along its spiritual lines."

"The present situation of both societies gives promise of great things to come. A remarkable thing about the church extension movement is the ready response of the wealthier class of Catholics in the United States to its appeals."

"Evangelization's primary objective is the sanctification of man for Christ in the Holy Spirit and the glorification of God always in Christ in the Holy Spirit. All the works of the pilgrim Church on earth have as their main objective, this sanctification and glorification which is reached above all through the liturgy."

"Martin, born in Brittany, inherited the deep faith of the Bretons."

"All of us Mexicans, but especially politicians, must get used to an open exchange, because democracy is in a one-way street in our history. There is still much work to be done by all of us, especially in the field of values. Too much concern has been given to economic issues and very little to the ethics that must flow beneath a true democracy. We have to realize that a sound economy and a wealthy nation is at the same time a fair one if values are placed first."

"Give them a chance and to discern how God works or how God's calling is manifested in every seminarian."

"Our political choice reflects our values. The vote reveals who I am. The votes cast by people are a reflection of this. Our vote is an expression and affirmation of our human dignity, a fundamental principle of Catholic social doctrine. It is a gift from God to people and the way we use it is our gift to our country. It is the fulfillment of one's own responsibility to participate in the social and political life of our country and to influence it."

"He quickly saw that the question must be considered not merely in relation to present politics but also in relation to the past history of Ireland, and he delayed his final report in order to consider the question in this broader aspect. Meanwhile the Holy See issued its condemnation of the Plan of Campaign. Persico returned to Rome much disappointed."

"The Ati people have been stewards of the land for generations. They have made it cultivated and productive. Their right to land is linked to the rights of indigenous peoples: we call on all parties to respect them."