[Cronos]

but remember two more things -- we know what's happening in the US, but the Pope has got to know about stuff happening across the entire globe

and, the bishops have a lot of lee-way in their own dioceses....

[Nifster]

if the bishops defy the pope are they not also in defiance of church teachings and hence should be defrocked.....didn’t that happen when the latin mass was replaced and one bishop continued to use ‘the old mass’????