Can you imagine depending on one of these jokers for backup in a firefight? Or to bring the Last Rites to you if you were wounded in a firefight? If cannibalism ever becomes popular in this country, we can depend upon our bishops for developing nuanced teaching on fondness for the long pork.
PopeWatch: Ever Profiles in Cowardice
- 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.
Bishops? Wasn’t that honor also bestowed on Judas Iscariot?
“The tame commitment to the noncommittal is the engine that powers gay progress in the Church.”
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/paul-mankowski-sj-tames-in-clerical-life/
“Saint Athanasius is credited with saying, ‘The floor of Hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.’ In fact, many saints have made comments similar to this. Saint John Chrysostom had the most detailed version: ‘The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.’”
Any bishop still a member of the USCCB is no father. i would like to see just one of them grow a set and tell the USCCB to pound sand.
Bishops will recover their moral authority when it requires physical courage to be one again. And while the laity have various degrees of moral authority, there’s no doubt that courage will make the faith more attractive by their example, too.
In the meantime, the current bench will preside over an ever-dwindling number of funeral clubs called parishes.
You can count on more than one diocese being dis-established and being folded into another in the U.S. during the next half-century.
Any bishop still a member of the USCCB is no father. i would like to see just one of them grow a set and tell the USCCB to pound sand.
IIRC, Bp. Bruskewitz may have resigned from it. Just seems like a waste of time and money – a jobs program for wheel-spinning. NGO twits.
Bruskewitz didn’t resign from it, but he refused to sign the Conference’s Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, the only bishop not to do so.
Not a good look, as it turned out, given his knowledge of a predator in a 1998 interview.
https://www.bishop-accountability.org/2021/11/nebraska-clergy-sex-abuse-report-258-victims-57-predators-no-prosecution/
All too often the Church hierarchy treats faithful Catholics like Uriah the Hittite was treated. Sometimes I wonder if I am in the church of Cain.
There’s an old joke about why it takes 3 bishops to ordain a new bishop: 2 to hold him steady and 1 to remove his spine.
Not as funny as it used to be.