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Where Do Bishops Come From? The Divinely Appointed Overseer, by Dr. R. Jared Staudt – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Where Do Bishops Come From? The Divinely Appointed Overseer, by Dr. R. Jared Staudt

How to Respond to Open-Borders Christians, by Auguste Meyrat

February 26, 2026

Psalm 51: The Depth of Divine Mercy, by Gary A. Anderson

February 27, 2026

Bishops at the Second Vatican Council. (Image: Lothar Wolleh/WikiCommons)

By Dr. R. Jared Staudt, Catholic World Report, Feb. 26, 2026

R. Jared Staudt PhD, serves as Director of Content for Exodus 90 and as an instructor for the lay division of St. John Vianney Seminary. He is author of Words Made Flesh: The Sacramental Mission of Catholic Education (CUA Press, 2024), How the Eucharist Can Save Civilization (TAN), Restoring Humanity: Essays on the Evangelization of Culture (Divine Providence Press) and The Beer Option (Angelico Press), as well as editor of Renewing Catholic Schools: How to Regain a Catholic Vision in a Secular Age (Catholic Education Press). He and his wife Anne have six children and he is a Benedictine oblate.

We do not obey the bishop because we like him, or because he’s always right in his decisions, but because he is the one who has received the care of the Church and acts on behalf of Christ in our diocese.

This last year, the world watched as the cardinals gathered in Rome for the election of a new pope, the 267th bishop of Rome. New York recently received a new archbishop, and Denver is preparing for one as well.

We are witnessing apostolic succession in action, extending an unbroken chain of bishops back to the apostles, who were appointed directly by Our Lord. Jesus established the Church, literally the “assembly,” as a relational network to draw the nations to himself. …

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Where Do Bishops Come From? The Divinely Appointed Overseer, by Dr. R. Jared Staudt

How to Respond to Open-Borders Christians, by Auguste Meyrat

Psalm 51: The Depth of Divine Mercy, by Gary A. Anderson

By Dr. R. Jared Staudt, Catholic World Report, Feb. 26, 2026

We do not obey the bishop because we like him, or because he’s always right in his decisions, but because he is the one who has received the care of the Church and acts on behalf of Christ in our diocese.

This last year, the world watched as the cardinals gathered in Rome for the election of a new pope, the 267th bishop of Rome. New York recently received a new archbishop, and Denver is preparing for one as well.

We are witnessing apostolic succession in action, extending an unbroken chain of bishops back to the apostles, who were appointed directly by Our Lord. Jesus established the Church, literally the “assembly,” as a relational network to draw the nations to himself. …

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