Article: Bishop takes issue with late predecessor.(American Catholic)

In Brief: One of the fascinations of the local church is how a new bishop will compare with the man he is replacing. Much reporting and analysis has been written about how those appointments have changed in recent years. As a group, the more recently appointed bishops have been described as more conservative, stricter in adherence to church teaching and less accommodating to questions than some of their predecessors. In few places are the generational and style differences as clear as in New Ulm, Minn.

The bishop of New Ulm, Minn., has taken the extraordinary step of denouncing the theological views of his predecessor and urging Catholics not to read a book ...

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