Baltimore, Md., Nov 11, 2019 / 11:35 am
Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, outgoing president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, highlighted Monday his experience leading the conference and detailing his personal growth over the last three years as his presidential term comes to an end.
"My service as president has been a continual reminder that, indeed, 'the light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it,'" DiNardo said at the US bishops' autumn general assembly in Baltimore Nov. 11. While "our present culture can seem overtaken by various ideological or political divisions," bishops and other followers of Christ need to be different, he affirmed.
"Follow a simple truth: 'God is always courteous,'" said DiNardo. "Let us be courteous."
DiNardo remarked that while his tenure was during the "difficult times within our own Church," that the bishops must continue to seek justice and to work for "relationships that are ordered in the right way--that is, towards the salvation of souls, including our own."