My best friend has a sailboat, and whenever HIS mother-in-law comes aboard he runs this flag up the mainmast...to let everyone else in the harbor or at sea know that he has his "Mother-in-Law On Board"
She gets all her information from the major networks and the local newspaper.
The Church has been badly led since Vatican II. Most of the bad decisions were, of course, unintentional. But as they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Luther, like the Catholic reformers, meant well, but as he found out, when you start a revolution, you risk losing control. Look what happened in the case of Carlstadt. He went of the deep end while Luther was in hiding. Who would have thought it form his past history. Eck could get no one to take Luther’s movement seriously. Of course, Luther should have been imprisoned in a monastery or executed, but he had friends in high places: in his order and in Germany. God knows how many lives would have been saved if his heresy had been successfully suppressed. Anyway, God has his plan, and we short-sighted little ants, can hardly see beyond the next grain of sand. Of course, we are, all in all, mighty little things who can move boulders with his help.