[BlackElk]

Bishop Robert Lynch is a total embarrassment to those who are Irish Americans, to those who are Irish, to those who are Americans and particularly to any Catholic who has any business calling him/herself Catholic. Fortunately, he will turn 75 years of age on May 27,2016 and will have to submit his resignation to whoever may be pope at that time. I am betting that, if Francis is still pope, there will be footdragging on accepting the resignation.

OTOH, most bishops either retire at 75 or soon thereafter or, as my wife is fond of noting, sometimes God removes them whether they serve as bishop of St. Petersburg or bishop of Rome. In any event Christ will be with His Church all days until the end of this world. We have survived worse than Bishop Lynch (for example: Archbishop Talleyrand) and worse than Francis (for example: Alexander VI).

There is a dismal article in this week's Newsweek on Francis and how he moved leftward while Archbishop of Buenos Aires. Sophomoric nonsense by reporter and subject. Both have the overwhelming "smell of the sheep" about them.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

True, true...the Church has survived many storms. My hope and prayer is that this recent bit of mischief is just coughing up the flem left over from the 1960’s when many of these bishops were young and perhaps too enthusiastic about making a difference in this world without regard for the next.