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JPII has been fighting the annulment explosion in the USA tooth and nail, without much success.

I agree with all of your very fine comments except for this one. At any time in the last twenty years, JPII could have stopped the annulment scandal dead in its tracks by making an example of a few bishops by firing them. Trying to talk sense and backbone in the American bishops obviously doesn't work. JPII is a monarch who has spent his papacy refusing to rule.

JPII is a monarch who has spent his papacy refusing to rule. Regrettably, he has squandered much of his authority - to the detriment of millions and to the detriment of a couple of thousand teenage boys.

Funny you should use the term "monarch." Read an article tonight in Latin Mass Magazine in which one of THEIR authors refers to 'papal monarchy' as a big negative. Irony, with more to follow...

Look, JPII is not the 'shoot-em' kinda guy. Maybe it's like the death penalty--easy to talk about but if YOU actually had to stand there and PERSONALLY energize 'the chair,' would you? could you?

If you read his letters to the Rota, it's clear that he wants the criteria for annulment tightened considerably. That's all I can say.

As to the rest of the irony--the authoritative BlackElk has posted that the 'divorce mill' Rota decisions BEGAN with none other than Mgr. LeFebvre--the founder of SSPX.