…bishops will be doing a lot of flying around over the next few days. 
As Rocco has noted, the next few days are very busy, US-episcopacy-wise.  Well, it actually started yesterday, with the installation of the new bishop of Pittsburgh, David A. Zubik.  (Who will not be living in the mansion bishops have dwelt in for the past five-plus decades, but in an apartment in St. Paul’s Seminary) The Post-Gazette reports on the ceremony and homily:

With resonant voice and conversational demeanor, Bishop Zubik cited Scripture and a parable about Satan’s delight over Christians who procrastinate in responding to God’s love and demonstrating their faith. He also set off widespread laughter and applause when he spoke of a story published earlier this week in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which referred to rumored “sanctified scalping” of widely sought tickets for yesterday’s invitation-only installation.

“I knew about scalping, but I didn’t know how sanctified went with it,” he said, smiling. “Then I got really excited, really enthused. If people are scalping tickets to come to church, how much they must be in love with God.”

Bishop Zubik turned serious when speaking of the airplane passenger with whom he’d chatted after flying back to Green Bay from Pittsburgh on the day after his appointment was announced in July. The man watched the bishop pray the rosary, then admitted in conversation that he’d fallen away from the church because he’d never encountered anyone who truly followed Christ’s teachings in day-to-day life.
“I’ve been thinking about his answer,” Bishop Zubik said. “The question I ask myself and the question I ask of all of you is this one: How excited are you? How excited am I? How excited are we about our God?
“Can people who see us day in and day out know without question that we’re proud of our faith, that we’re dependent upon God and that we’re excited about doing his work?”
The bishop exhorted Catholics to seek God’s help during prayer, to stand up for the sanctity of human life and to help the poor and “people on the fringes of society.” He also thanked Archbishop Wuerl for “teaching me what it means to be a man of the church,” and Auxiliary Bishop Paul J. Bradley for his pastoral oversight of the diocese during the 15 months after Archbishop Wuerl’s departure for Washington.

I assume the full text will be on the diocesan website soon. BTW, in taking a look at the site, I noticed that the Respect Life office is running a workshop on Infertility (pdf) – perhaps this is often done in other dioceses, but I’ve not seen it. It’s a welcome sign of the Church picking up the ball it’s dropped over the past few decades in this area, not in terms of theology, but very much in pastoral terms.
On Monday, Archbishop Edwin O’Brien, formerly of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, will be installed as the new Archbishop of Baltimore.
Then on Tuesday, Bishop Robert Baker will be installed as the Bishop of Birmingham, Alabama.
Another note of interest – Ukrainian Catholic bishops have been meeting in synod in Philadelphia, and they will celebrate a Divine Liturgy tomorrow in honor of the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the first Greek Catholic bishop in the US. The Liturgy will be broadcast on EWTN, starting at 1pm Eastern, and I’d encourage you to watch (remember EWTN streams online, too), to get a sense of the richness of ancient, traditional Catholic liturgy from the East. Warning: You probably won’t hear Gather Us In, so, you know…just in case you’d be disappointed by that omission.
The Baltimore and Baker installations will also be broadcast on EWTN, as well.