Says Archbishop Cordileone: “It’s occurring because we have a parish here that’s hosting a Rosary congress. There’s a movement of people. And they wanted to bring it here to San Francisco, a Eucharistic Rosary congress. And one of our parishes is hosting it.” And he explains why it won’t be held in the cathedral. “[I]n a traditional cathedral . . . [the celebrant chair] would be the bishop’s cathedra. Our cathedra is behind the altar, so it really doesn’t work liturgically in the older Mass to have, because the bishop, you know, he vests at the throne, and some part of the Mass takes place at the throne. And it really should be on the Gospel side, not behind the altar. So that’s why.”
