[ex-snook]

Thanks, I checked out the link. It was sort of an 'inside baseball' report. But has the Vatican officially said anything publicly? Probably a good number of the Bishops have been appointed during the watch of current Rome leaders. But who is making the recommendations needs to be answered.

The Jesus teaching that the greatest are to serve rather than be served, should be reborn in the hierarchy.

[maryz]

Probably a good number of the Bishops have been appointed during the watch of current Rome leaders. But who is making the recommendations needs to be answered.

I think quite a few bishops most deeply involved were appointed by Paul VI (but raised to cardinals by John Paul II). As I understand it, the American bishops are proposed to the Pope by the miscreants in the National Council of Catholic Bishops -- someone on another thread gave the numbers, and there are just too many for the Pope to know personally; the recommendations are generally accepted and acted upon.