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If the Pope were Catholic there would be no wrestling going on.

5 posted on 08/09/2015 4:11:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (To defeat the democRATs, we must first defeat the Republicans.)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

6 posted on 08/09/2015 4:16:58 PM PDT by Fungi

To: E. Pluribus Unum

That's actually not true. What happens at the Diocesan level is very much the responsibility of the Bishop of Philadelphia or wherever, and not the Bishop of Rome.

I'm not denying a Pope can go a long ways toward setting the tone. In really flagrant cases he can put depose an errant bishop or put him in charge of some little sinecure in Vatican City (like I think it was JP2 did to the former Archbishop Milingo of Lusaka.)

But ordinarily, the bishop's The Man. The Vatican doesn't have surveillance and enforcement systems all around the globe to get into every disputed case.

17 posted on 08/09/2015 5:23:53 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Un pere, une mere! C'est elementaire!" - banner at "Natural Marriage" demonstration in Paris)

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