[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“Benedict is a major disappointment and Notre Dame is a disgrace.”

You’re half right. Notre Dame is a disgrace. But to call Benedict a major disappointment only highlights your unrealistic expectations and not any failure on his part. He’s the pope, not God. Notre Dame is in OUR country and is the problem of OUR hierarchy and Church. And OUR hierarchy failed. Only about 75 or so bishops spoke up. That’s nothing!!!

But this isn’t over yet. The Church moves SLOWLY.

[jwalsh07]

You’re half right. Notre Dame is a disgrace. But to call Benedict a major disappointment only highlights your unrealistic expectations and not any failure on his part. He’s the pope, not God. Notre Dame is in OUR country and is the problem of OUR hierarchy and Church. And OUR hierarchy failed. Only about 75 or so bishops spoke up. That’s nothing!!!

I'm a practicing Catholic and my opinion is that Pope Benedict showed a failure of leadership. The proper place for the Pope on Sunday was standing shoulder to shoulder at the alternate graduation ceremony with the Bishop of the Notre Dame Diocese.

That appearance would have forced the American Catholic hierarchy to crap or get off the pot.