There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the political process.
I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.
Let's be clear, I'm one of the thicker bishops in the Church of England.
Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.
By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country or some local pastor may say that's not Catholic teaching - that's fine.
I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.
Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.