When John Paul II got to the ball,it was stacked with "imposters". Among those were Bernardin,entered the line of successors in 1966,Mahoney,entered the line in 1975,Law in 1973,McCarricck in 1977,Keeler in 1979 (six months after he became Pope).Mansell and Egan were his own picks.
Thor,I may be over sympathetic to the predicament the Pope found himself in when he took office. I worked in Human Resources for many years and was able to navigtate my way through many difficulties with employer/employee relations by being a good listener,competent and well schooled in the area. However,I was stumped from about 1976 through 1986 or so, by infrequent but regulaarly occuring series of events or incidents with employee/management relations that left me scratching my head. Administrators and managers that I could count on to be just and fair would suddenly become arbitrary and capricious.
I am unclear on exact dates and I am not at liberty to discuss the paticulars but things happened that brought things to a head. Believe me when I say that I discovered absolutely and positively that there was "a tie that binds",and it was homosexuality/bi-sexuality and it went up to very high levels and there was little that could be done in situations where that entered the employment picture. Even after I discovered it,I was still often limited to trying to transfer employees out rather than remedy the situation within the department or unit.
I do not have the holiness,the intelligence or the charisms of the Pope so I am not absolving him based on my own inadequacies. On the other hand I only had to relate to a group of 3 or 4 thousand employees interacting with faar fewer admins and managers (albeit fluid). But I saw these people everyday and just could not figure out what was going on. The duplicity and deceit of homosexuals is almost beyond belief to an ordinary sinner like me. We need to work on getting active homosexuals and their sympathizers out of the priesthood.
"We need to work on getting active homosexuals and their sympathizers out of the priesthood."
How many priests and bishops will we have left?
Based on their actions, I would guess that we have a greater percentage of queer bishops than priests.
Realistically, how do we get rid of them? Is Steve Brady's outing these guys publically the only way? He has probably outed more of them than everyone else combined.
And is outing them enough? We are also starting to see outed prelates recycled back into the system e.g. Cawcutt, Ryan, Weakland. Can Ziemann be far behind?
We are not rid of these guys. They seem impervious to the ordinary bullets that do in pervert padres. To my knowledge, we have not had a single bishop in this country defrocked, laicized or whatever. We apparently need to find the figurative wooden stake and mallet. Do these pervert prelates know so much that they can somehow blackmail church leadership into inaction?
I know I sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I can offer no rational explanation for Rome's inaction.