Looking forward to it - You've been taking it easy on plurk it looks like - thanks for dropping in!

thank you. I have had some bad migraine spates.

the bishop needs to not ride in the parade. He needs to visit his flock. the only time people get to see him

is during the parade.

If I could make everything the way I think it ought to be.....

Other than really big cities like NYC - which is actually 2 dioceses + several in the near suburbs

people politely clapped, but, he did not get a huge rounding reception.

A *big * diocese would be 40 parishes or so.

right now that is the size of the smallest dioceses

benedictgal: tough to judge by a parade - what was the parade for?

Washington's Birthday Celebration. It is a huge thing down here.

he loves to ride in an antique car.

GNW_Paul: Actually, if you are only including NY itself, there is only one diocese in the suburbs (Rockville Center) but that's just

semantics...

We've been celebrating it for 113 years.

cuaguy: for some reason I was thinking Westchester was in another - but there YOU are

Rockville Center I know

Nope! I belong to Dolan!

IDK - watching parades its hard for me to get excited about every dignitary that rides by

though if I remember correctly, we are broken into about 10 different vicariates

I have not actually watched a parade in years. I was always a part of them

Even if I do like them - they are just riding by -It's only 'celebs' that get cheers from crowds of strangeres

my mistake, 10 counties... more vicariates...

lets see, westchester is broken into 3, so I think probably close to 15 or 16 vocariates

vicariates*

That's a big diocese - even Manhattan by itself is ~110 churches

Plus at least 1 college

the bishop was sandwiched in between a state representative and Mr. South Texas.

not that the college is part of the Diocese

Mr. South Texas is not a pageant title. It's given to someone who has made a diffeernce in South Texas.

I think there is only one college that actually has a NY priest as a chaplain (Nyack) but don't quote me on that

benedictgal: So did the Pol and the Community Service dude get more applause?

I think the main reason that Westchester/Rockland/Putnam(etc) isn't a separate dio is cause we have the sem

GW, yeah, they did. Of course, they were also throwing beads.

like Mardi Gras.

Gorge and Martha got more applause.

I still think it's hard to know what kind of indication that is - even presuming it actually indicated in anyway that Catholics in the

crowd weren't fond of the Bishop - you have no idea how representative that part of the crowd is or how reps of the whole Catholic Pop

Laredo is 99% Catholic.

benedictgal: I figured something like that

Msgr. Harris gets a better reception from people than the bishop does.

Thats sad

I think it would help if people actually knew the Bishop - in some cases anyway -

I know my bishop. the sad fact is that he favors the social events more than anything else.

he started off with a lot of promise, but, it's all been downhill. In the 10 years we've been a diocese, we have not advance.

Were you formed like Baker and Yakima then - small dioceses carved out of big ones

Yakima for large Hispanic Population and immigrants - 'they' felt there was a need for a close pastoral approach than in the D of Seattle

And Baker was so far removed from Portland and such diverse in need that they carved it off

Both in the early 90s

yeah. we were carved out of Corpus Christi and the southern part of the Archdiocese of San Antonio.