[tioga]

I have a liberal bishop, I am worried. It will be a number of years yet till his retirement.

[Mad Dawg]

Well, our parish is a Dominican parish, so it survived our previous very liberal bishop. Now we have a decent bishop.

My heart goes out to you, though. But here is where the laity can really make the difference. Seriously however "pious" it sounds, I think that the suffering cause by lousy bishops is good material to offer up. Through prayer God works wonders, and your children and children's children may see the blessed fruits of your discomfort. Papa Ben is, I think, so good that we can reasonably hope for a good successor, and the scourge of liberal bishops will finally be withdrawn from our backs.