[saradippity]

I think televising them is a great benefit to concerned Catholics like so many of us.I had never realized what a bunch of posturing ignoramuses so many of our bishops were until I saw them on TV.If you watch who feigns sleep through some of the orthodox Bishops presentations,who salivates while hererodox bishops are slipping a sly one over and listen to what they say generally,you will be able to figure out the healthy,holy,Catholic dioceses and whether they are losing or gaining ground. I watch,we are gaining.

Someone is taping them for me this week because I have no access but I have been watching since EWTN has been carrying them.I have never said how much I learned from them for fear the bishops would stop permitting it.Now I think the tide has turned and they would have hell to pay if they tried to stop the telecasts.

[american colleen]

bunch of posturing ignoramuses

LOL!

I think it is a great benefit to us as well, it's just that I feel uncomfortable that our shepherds, our spiritual leaders, feel the need to televise events that seem more like the Watergate hearings than followers of Jesus Christ... too much paper and too much minutiae.

You do pick up some things, though. To my ear, the more conservative bishops seem to have the upper hand... even Mahony seemed more unctuously servile today.

I noticed an interesting (to me) detail at the end of todays meeting. The regions got mixed up and a couple of states were listed in two different regions. One of the bishops (Sullivan?) picked up on it and made an announcement to Gregory. The bishop said to Gregory "we don't want to lose them!" and Gregory replied "maybe they've already separated!" (or similar words) to laughs... seemed to me that "schism" is on everyone's mind, but maybe I am misunderstanding.

Supposedly they have 118 of 119 signatures needed to hold the plenary meeting and it looks like the more conservative bishops are leading that charge. Interesting.