[ebb tide]

"Bringing up the topic" does not mean he wants the bishops to support it. It could be he wants the bishops to get all the controversy out into the open and soundly refute it.

That's a downright silly argument. Why not bring up incest or after-birth infancticide just to soundly refute it?

[Mrs. Don-o]

" Why not bring up incest or after-birth infancticide just to soundly refute it?"

Because they're not being proposed -- yet-- by certain German bishops, or popularized --- yet --- by the Political-Media Complex.

Marx and Kasper are going to be smacked down hard, and I think it's the Burke Five (Burke, Muller, Brandmuller, Caffarra, and de Paolis) plus the African bishops who'll lead the smackdown.

I can't wait.