Interesting article about Cardinal Ouellet

Here's the top of a story by Sandro Magister.  But read the rest as it is also interesting.

Theologians, defenders of faith, prominent among recently named bishops worldwide

January 17th, 2012
By Sandro Magister

ROME – Rounding the turn of his first year as prefect of the congregation for bishops, Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Quebec has surveyed the course in an interview for Avvenire, the newspaper owned by the Italian episcopal conference.

In the Nov. 18 interview, he revealed among other things that it often happens, “more than I could have expected,” that the candidate chosen to be made a bishop does not accept the appointment.

He indicated the reasons for such refusals in the growing difficulty of fulfilling the role, in a society in which the bishops are under public attack, “in part as a result of the scandals and charges concerning sexual abuse.”

As for career ambitions, the cardinal cautioned that if a priest or a bishop aspires and maneuvers to be promoted to a prominent diocese, “it is better for him to stay where he is.”

He concluded the interview by sketching the profile of the bishop the church needs most today:

“Today, especially in the context of our secularized societies, we need bishops who are the first evangelizers, and not mere administrators of dioceses, who are capable of proclaiming the Gospel, who are not only theologically faithful to the magisterium and the pope but are also capable of expounding and, if need be, of defending the faith publicly.”

This profile of the bishop as theologian and “defensor fidei” fits Cardinal Ouellet himself perfectly.

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