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Since it mentions our favorite Holy Office Inquisitor! ;)

Bishop leaves cradle of Catholicism for Wichita

Monsignor Michael Jackels leaves Rome today on his way to becoming the next bishop of Wichita.

Jackels has been living for the past eight years in the cradle of Catholicism, working for the watchdog arm of the Vatican under one of the most powerful men in the church.

That may sound like heady stuff, but Jackels says being named last month as the bishop of Wichita is what's turned his world upside down.

He'll be installed April 4, the week after Easter, during a Mass at the Church of the Magdalen ...

His boss for the past eight years was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican agency that ensures the integrity of Catholic teaching.

After Jackels made his trip to Wichita in January, "I went in to talk with Cardinal Ratzinger. He wanted to know how things went. I said, 'This is very surreal. It's like it's happening to somebody else and not to me.' And it was consoling because he said he had the exact same experience when he was named bishop of Munich and it was not expected."

... Jackels' priestly service comes with a reputation -- the diocese of Lincoln is known as one of the most traditional in the United States, and the congregation in Rome he worked for is the preserver of orthodoxy. Jackels calls himself a watchdog.

He's used to being ribbed about it.

"It's funny because it's an important congregation and we have to deal with the things that are controversial," he said.

Americans don't always understand, for example, why a Catholic theologian teaching in a university might be censured for writing something contrary to Catholic teaching.

"But for a Catholic theologian, they not only have rights but they have duties," Jackels said.

His boss in Rome has a reputation as "the enforcer."

"You hear Cardinal Ratzinger referred to as a panzer -- a tank -- by people. But he's a perfect gentleman, and I'm not saying this for any reason other than it's true. He's a model of Christian and priestly virtues, and you couldn't meet a more kind and gentle person, humble, a warm smile on his face."

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