If you raised chickens and a third of them died of a fatal disease you would soon start an nvestigation. If you found the disease was transmitted to other chickens in vitro as well as adult contact,would you just toss out all of the chickens and eggs in the coop? What about the ones that were/are healthy and would remain that way,out they go too?
And if you did decide to pitch the well and the sick out,who would you replace them with given that the disease was pretty widespread throughout all the chicken coops built at a certain time in a certain country.
Just keep the heat on the bad ones so that their time in power is never pleasant or comfortable. Shine the light of truth on their sordid,dusky little secrets. Many of them do not belleve in heaven or hell but they all fear exposure,ridicule and contempt while here on earth.
And all the while pray,it is the only sure way.
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Our great Pope, JPII, recently wrote that he wondered if he should have been more strict in Church governance. He chooses not to be. Now, it is not my place to tell him how to run God's Church, and we can go round and round about whether it is God's ordained will or His permitting will that allows such heterodox men to stay in high positions .
To answer your analogy about chickens and transmitting lethal disease I would say that for our purposes the etiology is well known. The treatment is immediate sequestration and incineration of any infected before they kill other healthy chickens.
Chickens do not have free will or the ability to reason. Humans do have those faculties. I do not accept the argument that eliminating the bad ones will also eliminate the good ones. That is the usual line used to provide cover for so many to not act with proper speed and diligence.