Garry Wills Please Go Away | National Catholic Reporter

Garry Wills Please Go Away | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB Garry has investigated the papacy quite thoroughly and has caught onto the fact that power does not surrender itself absolutely.  Whether women can be ordained, whether bishops should be appointed by a national Patriarch or elected by the faithful, whether the Pope deserves a fiat over a stronger argument in questions of natural law and the property relations within each diocese are all matters of practicality, not doctrine.  They can be changed but a hierarchy won't change them.  Such changes will certainly come from the bottom up, especially in the Church of the global north, which while short on attendees is still the financial engine of the organization.  This is one of those times in history when somethings gotta give.  I expect a throwback Italian or American who will drive the Roman Patriarchy over the cliff and into the arms of Constantinople.