It is very sad that it would be necessary to describe a Bishop as pro-life....that should be a unanimous position of ALL bishops.
Unabashed pro-life Bishop Robert Vasa of Baker, Oregon, has been appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of Santa Rosa, California by Pope Benedict XVI. Fittingly, the appointment was announced in Washington, D.C. on Monday, the day of the National March for Life.
Bishop Vasa (pronounced Vasha) will be installed as coadjutor bishop to Bishop Daniel F. Walsh, and will automatically replace Walsh upon his retirement, which is expected to happen within the year.
Whereas the diocese of Baker, where he has been since January 2000, has a Catholic population of about 36,000, his new diocese currently has about 170,000 faithful.
The bishop is well known not only for his strong pro-life stance, but also for demanding that Catholics uphold moral standards in all areas of public life.
In 2004, Vasa began requiring all lay volunteers in his diocese to make an affirmation of fidelity to the Church. He has been known to deny communion to pro-abortion politicians and uphold the Church’s right to excommunicate.
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God bless this man. I like the statement that he made regarding the fact that he answers to the Vatican, not the UCCSB!
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