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Let’s not forget that ROME has the real authority to discipline bishops. Metropolitans can investigate their suffragans (or the senior suffragan a Metropolitan) but Rome decides on what action to take.

Rome has continually acted inconsistently with regard to malfeasance of bishops and in the case of the priest Marko Rupnik done nothing at all. The Jesuits are left to their own jesuitical reasoning and treatment of their confrere.

The pope talks a lot about reform, he writes about it, he preaches on it but doesn’t seem to practice what he says, writes or preaches.

Reform to the Holy Father seems to mean giving papal departments new (and difficult to say and understand) names), all but banning traditional forms of worship, emphasizing synodality (where there will be none because the agenda is set), subsidiarity (when parish bulletins are told not to publish certain things) and transparency (in the muck of financial dishonesty and conflicting and “of the cuff” remarks).

Basically, the call of VCII regarding a bishop’s authority and responsibility for his local Church is curtailed. The role of the laity is reduced again to “pray, pay and obey.” And the Church continues to impede itself through lack of credibility in its mission of salvation of souls and the preaching of the Gospel.

No wonder Catholics who follow Church happenings give little credence to the bluster regarding real reform.

Many of us as the people of God are in state of confusion, disillusionment and disgust.

May the Almighty Trinity protect and save us.

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vsm's avatar

Superb and most necessary piece. With a few exceptions, I have no trust whatsoever in the ability or willingness of the bishops and cardinals to lance the McCarrick boil. And I never will, until McElroy, Cupich, Tobin, Farrell, Gregory, and the other assorted McCarrick enablers, proteges, fans, flunkies, beneficiaries, and hangers-on are held to a full public accounting by their brothers for the unspeakable damage their allegiance to him has done -- and continues to do -- to the Church.

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