…our fathers, that, with sure knowledge of the oaths in which they put their faith, they might have courage…the last time I spoke to Bishop Yanta he pointed his finger at me admonishingly, as a father sometimes does, and stated, “You keep speaking out!”…this post is in honor and obedience of him…
You keep speaking out!
Bishop Yanta
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own, and provides for them a “good steward” who lived according to the “oath of fidelity” he took in becoming a bishop
Exult, you just, in the LORD; even though one prominent Amarillo pastor exclaimed, “Bishop Yanta is the meanest man I’ve ever met in my life,…I don’t know of a single priest who’s happy.”; praise from the upright is fitting.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own, and provides for them a “good steward” who lived according to the “oath of fidelity” he took in becoming a bishop
See, the eyes of the LORD are upon those who fear him, and did not look to the pastor who said, “He has created such a negative, insulting and suspicious atmosphere … we’ve just been demolished,”.; He will preserve them in spite of famine.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own, and provides for them a “good steward” who lived according to the “oath of fidelity” he took in becoming a bishop
Our soul waits for the LORD, even though a fourth pastor believed, “I don’t think there’s a priest in this diocese who would follow him to get a drink of water.”, there are those who have put our hope in you.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own, and provides for them a “good steward” who lived according to the “oath of fidelity” he took in becoming a bishop
Some say Yanta’s reaction to a proposed lay-owned high school, Ascension Catholic Academy, was the breaking point, the issue that prompted people to talk openly about problems in the diocese.
Tale of two bishops, National Catholic register, April 2, 1999
All these died in faith. They did not receive what had been promised but saw it and greeted it from afar and acknowledged themselves to be strangers and aliens on earth,…unlike the bishops that preceded and followed, Bishop Yanta was a stranger and alien in the Diocese of Amarillo who never received a naming of a building in his honor…
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Stay awake and be ready! If Boston is the fault line of the child sexual-abuse scandal that has convulsed the Roman Catholic Church, then few places have felt the aftershocks more deeply than the Diocese of Amarillo. This was the state of the diocese when Yanta became bishop.
For you do not know on what day your Lord will come;
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Eight priests in the diocese have retired or resigned in recent months because of past incidents that diocesan officials say violated the new ”zero tolerance” policy for priests who have sexually abused minors.
Zero Tolerance Takes Big Toll in a texas diocese, the new york times, august 24, 2002
“That opportunity came when Bishop John W. Yanta became our diocesan bishop and I was chosen to be Vicar of Clergy and part of his pastoral team. Bishop Yanta wanted the Bishop DeFalco Retreat Center to be strengthened and be the spiritual heart of our diocese and to that end Sisters of Charity of St. Joan Antida Sister Theresa Rozga was hired as the BDRC director and we worked to bring ACTS to Amarillo. Bishop Yanta gave us the money to bring the teams from San Antonio for our formation and the first women’s and men’s retreats in 2001. The rest became our history, we were up and running on our own.”
Monsignor Harold Waldow, 15 Years of ACTS in the Diocese of Amarillo, July 14, 2016
Blessed are those servants
whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival.
Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself,
have them recline at table, and proceed to wait on them.
LK 12: 37
We lack leadership capable of striking out on new paths and meeting the needs of the present with concern for all and without prejudice towards coming generations.
paragraph 235 of Laudato Si