The mess will not be straightened out quickly. You can’t fire all the bad priests, or there would be no one to say Mass in a lot of parishes. So you have to try to control them and improve things gradually.
And my experience is that they don’t usually fire the lay staffers and catechists, but wait for them to retire, I suppose out of human sympathy for them. I think that sympathy is misplaced, considering the terrible damage they do, but I can understand it.
Mahoney had a lot of time to make this mess, and it will take a lot of time to clean it up. But it’s a start.
IMO, that is a colossal mistake. Mid-level bureaucrats wield inordinate power.
The queers, feminists, socialists, liberation theology types, etc all need to be removed sooner rather than later.
Queer priests need to go, too.
Agreed! Apologies for not including me in my post #25.