[Mrs. Don-o]

The Bishops actually organized the first "Call to Action" Conference in 1976 in Detroit. It was supposed to be the platform for lay people to apply Gospel principles to the temporal order. Instead, the lay leadership (mostly middle-management Catholic parish and school people: DRE's, teachers, professors, Chancery nuns, state Catholic Conference staffers, etc) skewed the agenda from the start to create leverage for new feminist, democratic and liberal model for the American Church.

The Bishops (mostly, except for the Usual Suspects like Gumbleton) dropped it, but dang, they should have throttled it.

Bruskewitz did the right thing. We should be sending him bouquets.

[Barnacle]

Interesting history, and a reason that I do not embrace the concept of democratizing the Church. Though far from perfect, there are few churches that are 2,000 years old and still going strong.

[ninenot]

Specifically, Cardinal Dearden "organized" CTA.

No surprise. He was one of Bernardin's mentors.

And do you REALLY think that the Bishops 'dropped' CTA? How do you s'pose they wound up meeting in Milwaukee after Bernardin, their under-cover patron, died, leaving them without a Chicago home?

[Cicero]

Yes, I'm now a bit vague on the details, but that's what I thought.