US bishops' latest display of desperation has roots in years of dysfunction

[SummerMadness]

US bishops' latest display of desperation has roots in years of dysfunction

The recent vote by this country's Catholic bishops, the equivalent of a corporate tantrum, was cringe-inducing but should not have been a surprise. The move to produce a document designed to render a severe and public judgment of President Joe Biden was engineered by men who, ensconced in a culture capable of stunning depravity and cover-up, have been searching for any means to reestablish their authority.

The vote by three-quarters of the bishops was the latest in a series of tawdry displays of desperation cloaked in the language of piety and gestures of moral superiority. The irony is as subtle as a Wile E. Coyote anvil. Their cause even further off target. The subsequent protestations — that any new document will not be a political statement — is a transparent reaction to public outcry. The damage has been done.

 

[Michie]

National Catholic Reporter. The very one clergy have spoken about staying away from. It’s not called fish wrap for nothing.

 

[SummerMadness]

National Catholic Reporter. The very one clergy have spoken about staying away from. It’s not called fish wrap for nothing.

At least it's from a Catholic perspective.

 

[Michie]

At least it's from a Catholic perspective.

Not really.

 

[BobRyan]

National Catholic Reporter. The very one clergy have spoken about staying away from. It’s not called fish wrap for nothing.

I don't think I have ever seen such an impressive list of pejorative terms used in just two paragraphs to describe any group of bishops - as the example we have in the OP.

 

[Michie]

I don't think I have ever seen such an impressive list of pejorative terms used in just two paragraphs to describe any group of bishops - as the example we have in the OP.

That paper is a joke. That’s why clergy have spoken against it.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

"...have been searching for any means to reestablish their authority."

Authority? I think they are trying to reestablish relevance. That is hard to do without unity.

 

[Fr. Appletree]

This isn't a Catholic perspective. Bishops working on a document that merely promulgates the tradition and canons of the Church, which could cause some who shouldn't receive not to receive shouldn't be surprising.

This is like calling the bishops 'desperate' for affirming the real presence. I mean, it's at that level.

 

[Michie]

This isn't a Catholic perspective. Bishops working on a document that merely promulgates the tradition and canons of the Church, which could cause some who shouldn't receive not to receive shouldn't be surprising.

This is like calling the bishops 'desperate' for affirming the real presence. I mean, it's at that level.

Exactly.