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An excellent conversation, check out the video.
One aspect drawing much attention was how the McCarrick Report revealed the dysfunction of the secretive and problematic process for choosing bishops.
I examined that further in my latest column:
https://sacredheartuniversity.typepad.com/go_rebuild_my_house/2020/12/selecting-shepherds-.html https://twitter.com/GUcstpubliclife/status/1338555677497757698
One aspect drawing much attention was how the McCarrick Report revealed the dysfunction of the secretive and problematic process for choosing bishops.
I examined that further in my latest column:
https://sacredheartuniversity.typepad.com/go_rebuild_my_house/2020/12/selecting-shepherds-.html https://twitter.com/GUcstpubliclife/status/1338555677497757698
What struck me most about the McCarrick Report is that virtually anyone--Catholic or not--knows how the Bishop of Rome, THE POPE, is elected.
Virtually no one knows how their local bishop is chosen.
Both @Cindy_Wooden and @ricdssj have excellent explainers of the process...
Virtually no one knows how their local bishop is chosen.
Both @Cindy_Wooden and @ricdssj have excellent explainers of the process...
...But the reality is that ideal bishops selection process is easily and often subverted. A single curial official can thwart the warnings of a cardinal, or a disgruntled churchman like Viganò is "punished" w/exile to DC as nuncio--and gatekeeper for all episcopal appts.
A system that thrives on secrecy rather than confidentiality, and one that is so complex that no one knows how it works, or if it works, is a bad system.
Personnel will always be policy--good priests, good bishops, a good pope picking them, is always critically important...
Personnel will always be policy--good priests, good bishops, a good pope picking them, is always critically important...
But I make the argument that synodality, the hallmark of the Francis papacy, should also be operative in selecting bishops.
My full column at Sacred Heart U's blog is here: https://sacredheartuniversity.typepad.com/go_rebuild_my_house/2020/12/selecting-shepherds-.html
My full column at Sacred Heart U's blog is here: https://sacredheartuniversity.typepad.com/go_rebuild_my_house/2020/12/selecting-shepherds-.html
PS: I only spotted this excellent Nick Cafardi column @commonwealmag on selecting bishops after I filed mine, it's great. Read him: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/ambrose-our-own
