Do you have better ones to offer?
“Do you have better ones to offer?”
What would happen if the Holy Father began speaking out strongly, publicly, and often against the abuses we all abhor?
In Boise, Joe and Mary Catholic don’t even seem to know what is correct. On the feast of the Transfiguration, the priest gets up at Mass and says it didn’t really happen. Not a ripple of surprise, much less shock. They plunk down a hot tub in front of the altar for full-immersion baptisms...”Oh, this is all the rage in Catholicism today.”
Doesn’t the Holy Father have some sort of duty to do everything he can to keep bad clergy from perpetrating this kind of abuse?
What would happen if he suddenly appeared at Mass in LA, marched up the aisle in full vestments, and began to strike Mahoney about the head and shoulders with his crozier?
And yes, I do think such extreme measures are called for.