42 out of how many bishops?
All due respect to the Holy Father, how long to you have to take notes before you figure out that you’ve got a collection of spineless careerists more concerned with the designs for their coats-of-arms and whether their French cuffs have enough starch?
Of all people, Andrew Greeley got it right years ago: “With few exceptions, the hierarchy in the United States ranges from the mediocre to the pyschopathic.”
Let’s hope that sometime before the 2012 election the Pope puts down the notepad and picks up the telephone - and maybe an axe.