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See preceding page for earlier posts today, 4/22/10.





I read it the other day. Didn't really like it too much, I must say.
HIs reluctance might also be interpreted as careful evaluation and the fact that he thinks forced change won't take fruit. A change of hearts will.



Sorry to use your space again, Heike, for the page heading! I wasn't expecting a page change just now...

You are referring, of course, to Damian Thompson's anniversary post on our dear Papi. I really think the occasion deserved more, that Damian should have taken time to write a more considered commentary - this one sounded like his routine posts.

And I agree that we cannot dispute the Pope's reasons for what seems to be a reluctance to make changes. On the other hand, I do think he has made the changes that he needed to make in the Curia - but he cannot easily change the local bishops who are already in place unless they are clearly a party to wrongdoing, as some of the Irish bishops were. And the responsibility for what happens in the local Churches is the bishop's, not the Curia. Even admirers of John Paul II concede that one of his weaknesses was the kind of bishops he named...

What B16 has done is to appoint bishops who are more clearly in line with his thinking, especially in the US and Canada. All bishops who have been openly defiant of him were certainly not his nominees!

TERESA

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