The removal has bupkis to do with Catholicism which is actually a good short description of this misbegotten pontificate.
PopeWatch: Bupkis to do With Catholicism
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Dear God, forgive us, but it appears lately that Rome has fallen again……
The letter this Bishop wrote to his flock is worth reading. He sounds like an actual, faithful Catholic man. So, of course, he had to go. It is actions like this by Francis that make me understand Mathew 7: 21-23 more clearly.
This is the problem with “universal jurisdiction” and “no appeal.”
You can have real bishops or papal totalitarianism. This pontiff in particular prefers the latter. And it’s been killing Rome for more than a century.
Rome will learn, though. The way she always does: slowly, painfully and at unnecessarily high cost.
The Congregation of Bishops and John Paul left in place bishops with a history of gross negligence unless they themselves admitted to personal sexual misconduct, but a bishop is deposed because of his recommendations on COVID vaccines? (I’m remembering that odd article Fr. Rob Johansen wrote twenty years ago drawing the analogy between deposing a bishop and decapitation; I didn’t understand it either). This was never about public health, but none of us have a clue as to what it actually was about; ot maybe every institution is run by the viciously stupid.