This is a colosally silly statement, Max, and I disagree with it totally!
Last November there was a statement put out by the bishops that went under the radar because all the attention was on the scandal situation. It was on violence in marriage, and of course no one is in favor of violence in marriage. But the document had some horrible statements that were blatantly contrary to Catholic teaching on marriage. The vote was 249 - 2. So there are only 2 bishops at most in the US who are willing to take an unpopular stance in defense of the Catholic faith. We aren't even sure about the 2 "No" votes, they could have had other motivations, but we are sure that 249 will support non-Catholic teaching rather than go against the politically-correct trend.
If you think that your Bishop Delaney of Fort Worth who brought his "old pal", a morally discredited lavender priest from Rhode Island, to run the diocesan Boy Scout program is "better than the rest," there has been a serious role reversal and you have become far more critical of AmChurch bishops than is Maximilian.
Maximilian: On the other hand, there are more than 1 or 2 exceptions who are far better than the rest. Our Bishop Thomas Doran, Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Archbishop Eldon Curtiss of Omaha, Bishop Weigand of Sacramento, Archbishop Dolan in Milwaukee, Archbishop O'Malley in Boston, Arnhbishop Myers of Newark, his successor at Peoria, Bishop Burke of LaCrosse, the new bishop at Madison, the new bishop at Brooklyn, New York, Archbishop Rigali of Philadelphia come immediately to mind and there are others.
If you think that your Bishop Delaney of Fort Worth who brought his "old pal", a morally discredited lavender priest from Rhode Island, to run the diocesan Boy Scout program is "better than the rest," there has been a serious role reversal and you have become far more critical of AmChurch bishops than is Maximilian.
Maximilian: [Failed to ping you the first time. Sorry!] On the other hand, there are more than 1 or 2 exceptions who are far better than the rest. Our Bishop Thomas Doran, Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Archbishop Eldon Curtiss of Omaha, Bishop Weigand of Sacramento, Archbishop Dolan in Milwaukee, Archbishop O'Malley in Boston, Arnhbishop Myers of Newark, his successor at Peoria, Bishop Burke of LaCrosse, the new bishop at Madison, the new bishop at Brooklyn, New York, Archbishop Rigali of Philadelphia come immediately to mind and there are others.
Agreed, sinky.
Max--my man--if you want to read documents that are confrontational, go read the Declaration of Independence.
If you want to read a document that teaches the Truth, go to Humanae Vitae.
Different purposes, different style.