Green Bay, Wis., May 31, 2005 / 22:00 pm
Bishop Aloysius Wycislo is turning 97 on June 17, and from his perspective as the oldest bishop in the United States, he says he is hopeful about the future of the Church and confident in its new pontiff.
Bishop Wycislo was a personal friend of Pope John Paul II and doesn’t really know Pope Benedict. Nonetheless, he said, he is “hopeful about where the Church is going.”
“It could be that Pope Benedict XVI might be the right person, fostering the church in the direction that God would have it be,” he told the Green Bay Press Gazette.
In an interview with the Green Bay Press Gazette, he commented that the Church has surely had its ups and downs, often related to the culture of the country where the Church is present, but it has persevered.