Vatican II and Contemporary Challenges for the Priesthood | Bishop William Byrne

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🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This lecture was given at the Catholic University of America on May 16, 2023 as part of the Thomistic Institute symposium titled "Toward a Fundamental Theology of the Priesthood." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Bishop William Byrne has served as the bishop of the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts since 2020. He studied at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, completing his licentiate in sacred theology from Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas(Angelicum) and was ordained on June 25, 1994 by Cardinal James A. Hickey.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:05.8	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:12.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:18.1	To learn more and to attend these events, visit us at
0:21.6	to mystic institute.org. The second session is titled Traditions and New Horizons. We have
0:29.3	three speakers that will follow the same format as the first, which each speaker will be given
0:33.5	20 minutes to give a presentation, followed by some questions. Our first presenter needs
0:41.4	very little introduction to this room. He is a local boy, as we might say. He grew up in
0:46.8	Bethesda, Maryland, and entered formation for the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Washington.
0:52.4	He studied at the Pontifical North American College in Rome
0:55.4	and happily completed his licentient and sacred theology
0:59.3	at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Angelicum.
1:04.8	So, yeah, so that's very good, yeah.
1:08.2	That makes up for Archbishop Brulio earlier.
1:12.5	He was ordained a priest in 1994 by Cardinal Hickey and was named a bishop, the new Bishop of Springfield, Massachusetts in 2020 by Pope Francis, and ordained a bishop that December by Cardinal Sean O'Malley.
1:30.3	Please welcome His Excellency, Bishop William Byrne. Thank you.
1:32.3	Thank you.
1:36.3	So if you're here to learn now, learn what human ecology means,
1:40.3	I'm not your guy, all right?
1:42.3	This will be more practical talk.
1:44.6	I'd like to thank the organizers of this event for the topic,
1:49.2	traditions and new horizons, which means talk about anything you want as far as I can tell.
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