In a broad interview with Platled interview Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey Prey said he doubted that he would go with Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s description Charlie Kirk as a saint of today,
The prey also said he was “not afraid” to ordain women as priests or deacons, but said he had to work in accordance with the current rules of the Catholic Church, so he would not take that step.
The Milwaukee Press Club news manufacturer’s lunch on October 2, the prey, which is now eight months old when he was Archbishop, reflecting on the questions of journalists. He often answered with his own questions. He urged more dialogue, criticized the division and said he knew he had to engage in the political bustle for the time we live in, but I wanted it not necessarily.
“I don’t want to be political, but I am involved in a world where I have to be political. My politics is Jesus Christ,” said the prey. “I was very pleased with the parish priest.”
Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey Prey during his installation on January 14, January 14, St. In John’s Evangelist Cathedral.
After becoming the Archbishop of the Archbishop in January, he emphasized listening, reached Divides and contacted a wider community. He repeated it again in the panel.
“Division is not born of God, so how do we build bridges?” said the prey. “We need to break down obstacles, we have to break down the silage. We are much stronger when we work together.”
The prey said he was trying to visit as many parishes and schools as possible throughout the Archdiocese to provide their support and learn more about them.
“If I really will be (the Archdiocese) Shepherd, I have to know it, not just be the work of the museum, which they hold on the shelf in the office of the Office, periodically and periodically deplete dust and highlight,” he said. “I want to move to the edges of the archdiocese.”
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About immigration operations and fears of faith communities
The prey was asked about the criticism of other Catholic bishops for the Immigrant parishioners and families of the Imigrant Immigrants’ Immigration.
“Everything continued to deteriorate,” he said, “because the bishops of Wisconsin in February. Published a letter calling on a humane immigration policy.
He said some of the pastors of the South Song had a chance to stop the Sunday Mass commitment to alleviate the fear of immigration in their churches. He said it was a “discussion point”, not an agreement made, and they would wait for the situation to increase.
He said there is a “great line you dance” among the realization that the government has the right to defend its laws along with the main Catholic faith of human dignity.
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The boot said he was “bombarded” by the opinions of the members of the community, some say that it is too far away, some say they are not far enough. Some said, “How do you dare to attack the president,” while others said his comments upset them, the prey said.
“This is the climate in which we live. But the fact is that we are doing tangible to help real life – people to keep their dignity as people?” He said.
The prey said he hoped to invite people to think deeper about the questions he tries to do as well. “The subtlety is lost to many people,” he said and people may misunderstand what he is trying to say.
The prey said he has no answers, but must tell the truth in his role. He also believes that at the end of his life is accountable to God, not those who offer their comments.
Archbishop of Milwaukee Jeffrey Prey 2022 He met Pope Francis when he participated in Rome’s training to become a bishop. The prey was an auxiliary bishop in Chicago, before that in 2025. January Becoming an archbishop of Milwaukee.
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The prey, which was an auxiliary bishop in Chicago, said he had served in the diocese board, reviewing sexual abuse claims for 15 years and saw “things that would turn many people’s stomachs”.
He said “shame” for those who carried out and covered violence. He also said that the Archdiocese should constantly review his policies and systems to prevent clergy’s violence and cannot be free.
“We can never become accomplices. We can never become anything but vigilant,” he said.
Asked if he would consider adding priests of religious order – who would respond to organizations unrelated to the Archdiocese, a list of the priests limited to the archdiocese list, reliably accused of abusing, as the lawyers urged long ago. He said he said to the Wisconsin Prosecutor General Josh Bone, who led the state -owned abuse of abuse that he did not want to present his name to reviews from religious orders that he had no influence because the Archdiocese could not verify the processes of religious orders.
“With a good conscience, we were able to put links to those religious orders on our site,” he said. But “I’m not so stupid to talk to someone’s process.”
About the role of women in the church
Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey’s prey talks with news journalists after its installation on January 14th. St. In John’s Evangelist Cathedral.
Based on her attitude towards women who start leading roles in the church, the prey said she recently hired Sister Diana de Bruin from St. Francis of Assisi sisters in Milwaukets to be a “religious vicar” in the Archdiocese, high position.
When asked if he favored women as priests and deacons, he replied, “I am not afraid of it.”
“I see the role of women as an integral life of a local church,” he said.
He said he was looking at roles in which women can arrange, use their skills and “create balance”.
“I have to work according to the current structure. I don’t think as the archbishop will want to start priestly priests or deacons because it will be a real short term,” he said.
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About Catholicity’s “pendulum”
The journalist asked prey whether he agreed with the evaluation of former Archbishop, Archbishop of Milwell, from Dolan as “modern St. Paul” and hero.
The prey replied, “Charlie Kirk was a man, was a man, had a wife and a child. He did not absorb, like nobody to end it. I don’t know if I would compare him to the modern St. Paul.”
He also proposed a mid -range perspective on younger Catholic trend, usually accepting traditional or more conservative practice, such as Latin mass compared to older generations.
“Pendulum never long for the center,” he said. “It fluctuates from one side to the other.”
He added that it is important to bring together old and new ideas, and the church will survive every iteration. In the Latin Mass and incense, he said, “Again, what I am not afraid of. But we are not just that.”
He noted that the pendulum spun in the past, for example, from the conservative of the 1950s to the liberalization of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.
“We always live in that tension. The fact is that we do not lose the center of Jesus Christ,” he said.
Sophie Carson is a joint task journalist who reports religion and faith, immigrants and refugees and more. Contact her by email. Email scarson@gannett.com or 920-323-5758.
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