Cafardi's Funnybone

Cafardi's Funnybone by MSW.  MGB: I would take it one step further - just call Rome and their objections irrelevant and stand on their own feet without recognition. When we lived in a society where bishops had secular power, the protection of the papacy was necessary.  They no longer have any such power, so papal recognition can be dispensed with, as well as any deference to the local ordinary.  Bishops and the Pope need to realize that they only have the power we give them.  If consent is withheld, Rome is irrelevant - at least to the Sisters.  God is still with them.  The conduct of the Curia does not make the same claim possible.  "By their fruits shall you know them."