Just to settle it and leave no doubt.
To show that someone in the Vatican has some, er... backbone.
Catholic bemoan what has become of their church and I see lack of church discipline as being one of the reasons.
Besides, the true church is obligated to exercise some level of church discipline.
Paul did it and encouraged it. Maybe that’s the problem.....
It was Paul.
It was a rhetorical question but it certainly is true that, “Besides, the true church is obligated to exercise some level of church discipline”, in fact it was to be spotless and clean not full of dead men’s bones as relics and endless scandals of sexual predators.