"The Pope knows we have a bigger agenda. He's got to get on with other things, of talking about the environment and protecting migrants and carrying on the work of the church. We're not going to go down a rabbit hole on this." —Cardinal Cupich https://t.co/ByEOh5Gkc8— C. C. Pecknold (@ccpecknold) August 28, 2018
Update: You're also a racist.
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Whoa. That's bad. Thats very bad.
The problem, though, is how the purge is to be done? The way the church is structured, isn't all the power arranged from the top down? If the corruption is in the pope/cardinals/bishops level, do the lay members and the priests actually have any leverage? Other than stopping the flow of money collected by the parishes to the diocese, or schisming off from the church entirely, that is?
I don't ever recall hearing about any formal procedures in the church that would be comparable to an impeachment proceeding, or to an election to "vote the rascals out". As far as I know, the only formal recourse is to complain to the level of the hierarchy above the offender, and have them deal with them. But this won't work if the top of the hierarchy refuses to act. And the Pope effectively doesn't answer to anybody, as far as I can see. The rest of the church can rebel against him until he gets worn down enough to quit, but they can't actually remove him.
Tomorrow's blog post. Step 1 is actually happening right now.
Swamp in Washington, Swamp in The Vatican, Swamp in Brussels, they've been allowed to get away with it for far too long but now there is Trump in Washington, there is the silly named Me Too movement which seems to have caught up with The Vatican, and there is Brexit to upset the EU's applecart. On Brexit saw a picture of Napoleon captioned, Great Britain, spoiling European Union since 1816.
Hmm, Pope Donald the First sounds about right.
ligneus - isn't the common thread a group of alleged experts trying to exert more and more control over the normals and then showing they're incompetent and doing anything real?
Nothing new historically, but still...infuriating.
What a twit.
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