Bp-Elect Lopes Is Only 40

A visitor notes something that had also occurred to me: "If Bp[-Elect] Lopes is planning to move on to bigger things he will . . . . work hard to mainstream [the US-Canadian Ordinariate]. He is not planning to spend the next thirty-five years in that jurisdiction." As a Catholo-Catholic, I was delighted to see Robert Barron become an auxiliary bishop earlier this year, but in comparison, he is 56. If Bp Barron seems to be up and coming, so much the stronger might be the same impression about Bp-Elect Lopes.

I suspect he plans to make some changes, and I suspect they'll be to the good. From Mr Murphy's post, it doesn't look like the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society is necessarily going to be on board with this, not that most people will care.