Does anyone else wonder why the Vatican seems to relieve many bishops of their duties on what appears to be lack of "loyalty", while at the same time it retains bishops who seem to be sources of deep scandal to the faithful. Francis complains and uses a slur against a certain kind of immorality among the clergy, but doesn't remove any of…
Does anyone else wonder why the Vatican seems to relieve many bishops of their duties on what appears to be lack of "loyalty", while at the same time it retains bishops who seem to be sources of deep scandal to the faithful. Francis complains and uses a slur against a certain kind of immorality among the clergy, but doesn't remove any of them. Yet with very little ground, he removes Bishop Strickland and now Bishop Bradley, and I'm sure there are many others. JPII and Benedict never seemed to remove bishops from t
(Now) Cardinal Pierre certainly has an integral role in “removals” I suspect.
Seeing his diplomatic/nuncio experience and the cultures in which he worked, I’m skeptical of how high synodality was on his list of priorities: Haiti, Uganda, and Mexico. None of these countries has a mid- or low-level power-distance index. Inertia, an immortal characteristic of the Church and its Curia, tells me working in the US won’t change his autocratic approach if it worked at his last 3 nuncio stops.
Does anyone else wonder why the Vatican seems to relieve many bishops of their duties on what appears to be lack of "loyalty", while at the same time it retains bishops who seem to be sources of deep scandal to the faithful. Francis complains and uses a slur against a certain kind of immorality among the clergy, but doesn't remove any of them. Yet with very little ground, he removes Bishop Strickland and now Bishop Bradley, and I'm sure there are many others. JPII and Benedict never seemed to remove bishops from t
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(Now) Cardinal Pierre certainly has an integral role in “removals” I suspect.
Seeing his diplomatic/nuncio experience and the cultures in which he worked, I’m skeptical of how high synodality was on his list of priorities: Haiti, Uganda, and Mexico. None of these countries has a mid- or low-level power-distance index. Inertia, an immortal characteristic of the Church and its Curia, tells me working in the US won’t change his autocratic approach if it worked at his last 3 nuncio stops.