[afraidfortherepublic]

It would not be wise ...to pick a fight with Bishop Doran who is also one of only seven members of the Church's supreme court: The Signatura which has jurisdiction over ... over the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and over every other Catholic.

I feeled truly blessed for the service of Bishop Doran extending to us all. I had no idea that there was such a body as the Signatura, and I am grateful for it.(I wish that they'd taken some action against Bishop WEAKland when he was in power!)

[BlackElk]

Me too but the Signatura, like all courts religious or secular, grinds much more slowly than the most egregious of sinners (like Weakland) can move into autocrime mode. He was once the head of the Benedictine Order and did great evils in Rome, then the worst Vatican representative this nation will ever suffer (Archbishop Jadot) saw to Wakland being installed as Archbishop of Milwaukee to ruin what was left by his predecessor (Archbishop Cousins???). At least, the Benedictines figured it out. When the lavender mad monk of Milwaukee finally had to retire, his original Benedictine Monastery told him he could not return to the monastery. He apparently lives in segregated facilities in St. John's Diocesan Seminary in Milwaukee, hopefully with no access to seminarians, innocent or otherwise.

Whether he repents or not, eternal justice is a lot more swift and quite permanent.

[ninenot]

It is extremely rare for the Signatura (or the Pope, for that matter) to 'act against' a sitting Bishop.

But they DO accept their resignations quickly--and there are other ways in which they make life uncomfortable for twits and bedwetters...