Bishop Daniel Flores
Pope Benedict XVI names new Bishop of Brownsville
BROWNSVILLE, Dec. 9 - Pope Benedict XVI has named Bishop Daniel Flores, of the Archdiocese of Detroit, as the new bishop for the Diocese of Brownsville.
Flores will be installed as the sixth bishop of the diocese on February 2, 2010. He replaces the Most Rev. Raymundo J. Peña, who is retiring as bishop of the Diocese of Brownsville.
Peña will introduce Flores today at 9:30 a.m. at a news conference at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Brownsville (1218 E. Jefferson St.) and at 3 p.m. at the Bishop Adolph Marx Conference Center in the Diocesan Pastoral Center in San Juan (700 N. Virgen de San Juan Blvd. - near the Basilica grounds.)
Flores currently serves as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Detroit. He was ordained a bishop on November 29, 2006 at Detroit’s Blessed Sacrament Cathedral. He was born in Palacios, Texas, in 1961 and baptized in Zapata, Texas, where both of his parents, Fernando Javier Flores and Lydia Dilley Flores, were born. He grew up in Corpus Christi.
Flores was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Corpus Christi in January 1988. As a priest of the Diocese of Corpus Christi, he served in a number of capacities, including Parochial Vicar at Corpus Christi Cathedral, Secretary to the Bishop, Diocesan Master of Ceremonies, Assistant Chancellor, Rector of the Saint John Vianney House of Studies, and Episcopal Vicar for Vocations.
Flores also served in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, on the formation faculty and as vice-rector of St. Mary’s Seminary and on the teaching faculty at the University of St. Thomas School of Theology.
BROWNSVILLE, Dec. 9 - Pope Benedict XVI has named Bishop Daniel Flores, of the Archdiocese of Detroit, as the new bishop for the Diocese of Brownsville.
Flores will be installed as the sixth bishop of the diocese on February 2, 2010. He replaces the Most Rev. Raymundo J. Peña, who is retiring as bishop of the Diocese of Brownsville.
Peña will introduce Flores today at 9:30 a.m. at a news conference at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Brownsville (1218 E. Jefferson St.) and at 3 p.m. at the Bishop Adolph Marx Conference Center in the Diocesan Pastoral Center in San Juan (700 N. Virgen de San Juan Blvd. - near the Basilica grounds.)
Flores currently serves as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Detroit. He was ordained a bishop on November 29, 2006 at Detroit’s Blessed Sacrament Cathedral. He was born in Palacios, Texas, in 1961 and baptized in Zapata, Texas, where both of his parents, Fernando Javier Flores and Lydia Dilley Flores, were born. He grew up in Corpus Christi.
Flores was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Corpus Christi in January 1988. As a priest of the Diocese of Corpus Christi, he served in a number of capacities, including Parochial Vicar at Corpus Christi Cathedral, Secretary to the Bishop, Diocesan Master of Ceremonies, Assistant Chancellor, Rector of the Saint John Vianney House of Studies, and Episcopal Vicar for Vocations.
Flores also served in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, on the formation faculty and as vice-rector of St. Mary’s Seminary and on the teaching faculty at the University of St. Thomas School of Theology.
13 comments:
Thank God Pena is finally leaving! But will things change in the sordid diocese of B-ville? I am not holding my breath nor do I personally care. I have burnt that bridge.
Halleluiah!
Boy are we glad to see you, Bishop Flores!
We thought you would NEVER get here.
A quote in The Brownsville Herald from an Alice Putegnat states that a bishop is only as good as the people around him. THAT explains a lot!!! The combination of incompetence and ignorance in diocesan personnel is without equal.
Amen Anonymous #3. Just look at all the talented and dedicated employees that Bishop Pena either fired or ran off from the diocese because of his selfish management style. I don't know Alice Putegnat, but my hat goes off to her for her keen sense of observation.
Sad to say, replacement of Bishop Pena should have happened long ago. Especially after he pulled all those shenanigans over at Holy Spirit in McAllen. That one revengeful act alone caused hundreds upon hundreds of good Catholic families to leave the Catholic Church. Our Church is loosing parishioners fast enough, much less getting contributions because of the revengeful acts of our Bishop. When will we ever learn?
Joel, one good thing from all this is that some of us have learned. We do not need bishops and popes.
Yes Anonymous, but too few have learned this lesson. From birth we have been taught that we are all helpless members of the flock and that our salvation is totally dependent on our priests, bishops and pope to save us from everlasting damnation. As we both know, this is a bunch of crap and they are deadly afraid of those like us that have learned their real motives. Save our soul? Yea, right.
As Anonymous #1 has stated, "I am not holding my breath, nor do I personally care, I have burnt that bridge".
I feel the same way, as do millions throughout the world that have elected to leave the Catholic Church. The Church does not have a monopoly on Jesus Christ! Any time three or more are gathered in his name, He is with us. We create our own Eucharist. Let us all go out and practice His teachings. We sure don't need some egotistical priest or bishop to teach us how to do that!
Leslie
Sorry, Leslie and Joel, while I wholeheartedly agree that the diocese wil be a far better place without the likes of Bishop Pena and his merry band of sycophants (Genie Trevino, Brenda Riojas, Jack Graham and Luis Zuniga) I do not agree with your views on the Church sans an ordained clergy. EVERYTHING Jesus said and did is relevant to us, not just denouncing those in authority (who misused their power) or feeding the hungry. He did establish the college of the apostles and placed St. Peter at the head of this group. We have valid sacraments precisely because we trace our history to the Person of Christ, what other denomination can do that? I have been Catholic all my life (50 somthing) and I have never heard it said or taught that priests, bishops or the Pope are necessary for salvation in the Catholic Church. So, yes to a housecleaning under the new bishop's administration, but don't throw out the baby with the bathwater!!!
I would have to disagree with last anon. We certainly do not need an ordained clergy. The age of shamans is over.
You are correct, we do not need pope, bishops, priests, etc...but we do need the sacraments that only they can properly dispense through the eternal priesthood of Jesus Christ. Do we discount that, too? Are we catholics? Or are we protestants? Whatever your view on this situation, do not include the whole church and condemn the clergy and dismiss them. They have their proper role as well as the laity! DO NOT forget that.....
We are not catholics or protestants. but children of god if s/he exists. If not, then products of evolution. In any case let's use some reason and dump the hocus-pocus.
The situation at the Diocese of Brownsville is running amok. Reminds me of the hydra from Greek mythology. Cut off the head of the beast and two more grow in its place. Pena is gone but his disciples on a mission are dizzy with power as the new bishop is proving to be a delegator. What is worse, a tyrannical micromanager or a push over who trusts the incompetent sycophants brought in by Pena?
There is this letter circulating among all priests, sent anonymously about a week ago. Very badly written, poor grammar, complaining about Bishop Flores, his false charm, etc. Here it is verbatim:
"We are a concerned group of Catholics that are committed in our communities, trying to spread the gospel values but we see with sadness that you still are silenced by the charming of your new bishop. He is no differnt from the former one, he has surrounded with ineptitude, better said he kept the same people as advisors, the difference he included one or two
Dear priests of the Diocese of Brownsville as you were advised in your meetings that the Diocese is in the middle of a bishop's appeal, let me ask you this question DO YOU THINK THAT IS FEAR TO ASK US YOUR FAITHFUL TO PARTICIPATE 100%? While Bishop Daniel has purchased a house of a $500,000.00 market value
Do you think that is fear for bishop Daniel living in a palace whereas the majority of us liver under poverty level according to federal reports, and Cameron County being one of the poorest counties in our Country, do you think that Bishop is a good witness of the gospel when he lives in this county
Another question pumps in my brains, according to my sources Fr. Amador was one of the most outspoken when Bishop Pena spent the monies, he always question our former bishop, my question WHERE IS HE NOW? Is he now being silenced with his appointment as rector of the Basilica, or is he happy because now he belongs to the inner circle that controls the Diocese. Or now can he display his homosexual behavior more openly under bishop's protection?"
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