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Lefty? Sell all you have and give to the poor? You don't remember the right young man who cam to Jesus and asked what he had to do to be perfect?

The main point, it seems to me, is that these men are comfortable with the liberals they sat with earlier but not with these people. I feel like wringing the Cardinal's neck. Bob Dornan calls him "the coackroach" because of the way he scurries around and ducks out of sight when things get tough.

"...these men are comfortable with the liberals they sat with earlier but not with these people..."

That's probably very true, but since that whole first meeting was so hush-hush we may never know for sure. I just cannot figure out what is going on with the Church. It just seems to have been taken over by a cadre of self-protecting, child-moslesting, homosexuals. I feel very betrayed by all that has happened, after having for years defended the church against scurrilous charges such as all priests are pervents. Now, of course it has not been alleged, or shown, that all priests are perverts, a good number of them have been proven far more perverse than anyone imagined was possible. The bishops knew it, and failed to act. In toto, it seems.

Now, it seems plain to me that this debacle certainly stemmed from the liberlizations in the church in the 1960s. Now that might be false, since proximity is not causation, but it seems like a plausible theory. One possible solution to the current quagmire (to borrow that word for a moment) would be to return to a prior orthodoxy, and see if it works. Yet the liberals urge more liberalism. And, as you say, the Bishops seem comfortable with the liberals. But, right at this moment, I don't know what they would dare try and do about it though, as everyone is so furious with them. I imagine they are watching the current crisis in the Episcopal church very closely.

So Peggy Noonan may yet get to see her plan through, as the current round of liberlism as weakend the church, an addtional round might just finish it off, and the priests and bishops will be truly, actually, poor and will have to go get real jobs and life in affordable housing with the rest of us.

And I guess you & I will get stuck going to Lutheran mass!
(Only kidding, of course I hope this doesn't happen, but the Bishops seem deaf as wood and thick as bricks on this whole situation.)