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I will tell you what really upset me.

I was at the vigil just a few days before Terri died (I live in Florida, but in a different part of the state). The BISHOP of her diocese had forbidden priests to assist her, so the only priests were those from out of state or outside the diocese, and they were thin on the ground. In fact, there were virtually no defenders of Terri.

There were more news media representatives than there were people trying to support Terri. One of them interviewed me and I swear she was embarrassed by the fact that they had set up huge tents along the side of what was expected to be a massive protest...and there were more of them than of us.

JPII bears a lot of responsibility for tolerating the worst of the worst among bishops. Lynch was known as Bishop Speedo because of his fondness for photographing young men in Speedos, including one of his administrators, who sued him for sexual harrassment and got an out of court settlement; in addition, he was actually moved to St Pete’s because he had gotten involved in a financial scandal in Miami. Sadly, BXVI has left him in place.

A fish rots from the head, and until these rotten bishops are gone, the Church in America will never be healed. But no Pope has the courage to remove them.