tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post6861054485526730242..comments2024-03-23T12:05:23.537-05:00Comments on The Wild Reed: ChicagoMichael J. Baylyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-68435979834474765662008-04-16T22:17:00.000-05:002008-04-16T22:17:00.000-05:00Kevin,I'm so sorry I didn't know that you're in Ch...Kevin,<BR/><BR/>I'm so sorry I didn't know that you're in Chicago! It would have been great to have met you. I've long appreciated the informed perspective you regular share on <EM>The Wild Reed</EM>, and believe you'd be a person worth getting to know. Perhaps next time I'm in Chicago we could meet over coffee or a meal?<BR/><BR/>Are you an active member of AGLO?<BR/><BR/>Peace,<BR/><BR/>MichaelMichael J. Baylyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-258989473580406432008-04-16T21:20:00.000-05:002008-04-16T21:20:00.000-05:00Michael, glad you had a memorable time in my city....Michael, glad you had a memorable time in my city. It is truly wonderful, architecturally, historically, culturally, and socially, and religiously. You can probably understand how Chicago Catholics have never "jived" with the ultramontanist wings of the Church. It has never been a "fit" for us, and never will be. If you could read the notes of presbyteral council meetings with the cardinal you would further appreciate how the clergy in Chicago have continuous "frank and open" dialogue with their shepherd. It is not always "pretty and neat," but there is a dynamism and a life that are unequalled anywhere else in the U.S. Church.kevin57https://www.blogger.com/profile/01681985465980196347noreply@blogger.com