“Sure it would be nice if every bishop suddenly came to his senses, but if we don’t support and applaud those who DO work to bring the Church back, the others won’t follow.”
That’s fair enough. But the other side of it is that if all the bishops hear is how wonderfully they are now engaging the baby butchery problem they could could get complacent and think this is all they have to do. We are so starved for leadership from most bishops that they can look very brave in comparison to what has been said on the issue in the last few decades. But in reality all they are doing is part of what they should have been doing all along.
They are doing a pretty good job in presenting Church teaching on this issue, but the lack of discipline used to teach is shameful. It sends an awful message to the laity, a large percentage of who think it’s really no big deal because they see known Catholic pro-baby butchering pols not only support baby butchery but claim this is cool with Church teaching and not be named as confirmed excommunicated for their odious actions and refusal to publicly recant/change their positions.
Freegards, you rule A.A.M.
But we got here incrementally, and we've got to get back incrementally.
I guess I'm just relieved that our archbishop finally DID speak out.
P.S. You rule too! < g >