**I would love to see Rome start to remove some of these bishops.**
Hasn’t this happened with a few. I think of the wreckovation bishop (somewhere in MN?) and Pilla.
I have faith in Pope Benedict. Things are starting to happen.
I think it’s probably not enough for a bishop simply to be a decent person himself. He’s got to be a lion for the Faith, and get out there and fight to restore it to his diocese. This will include finding himself on the opposite of issues from a lot of the older heterdox or even just go-along-to-get-along bishops.
Our bishop wasn’t bad, left to his own devices (although he hates the Latin Mass and has simply refused to implement the MP, the only thing on which he has stood firm!), but he wasn’t up to retaking the diocese for orthodoxy. He makes little stabs at doing it when some priest tries to do something really goofy (when the wymyn’s ordination parish heats up, for example), but he has obviously given up on a more general level and is just waiting for his retirement in two years. He is even handling a moral issue with one of the priests here exactly the way the losers in Boston handled it, so we can see how much the bishops learned from that experience!
It was well known that our bishop didn’t want to be a bishop and hates being one. While Rome should not be seeking clerical climbers, it should be looking for orthodox men with leadership abilities - and courage!