South Bend, Ind., Nov 12, 2009 / 19:39 pm
Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend John M. D’Arcy, announcing his approval of plans to relocate a diocesan high school, has noted that the appointment of his successor “cannot be too far away.”
His comments came in a statement posted on the diocese’s website on Wednesday. There, he discussed how the diocese had been offered property at the present location of St. Joseph Medical Center as a new location for St. Joseph’s High School.
Bishop D’Arcy said a bishop must be a “good steward” and the proposed new school building cannot be so expensive that it is built “on the backs of families.”
“Indeed, I have to keep in mind my successor, and must not place an undue burden on him. The appointment of a new bishop cannot be too far away. I have made it clear that he will need to review this decision and, indeed, it will be his obligation to do so. But I always believed that, in light of my long tenure here, I had the obligation of making a firm decision while still bishop.”