Tornielli on Francis and the Cong for Bishops | National Catholic Reporter

Tornielli on Francis and the Cong for Bishops | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: The author gives too much credit to the Council of Bishops for autonomy.  They work for the Pope and I think this Pope will use gentle but firm discipline (although they might not dream of crossing him anyway).  In this kind of hierarcy, what Francis wants, Francis gets - until he remakes systems to decentralize the Church and make it more like Orthodoxy, which nationalizes most issues and ends their cosmic importance to the universal Church.  I hope he does that as I think it is inevitable.  There is really no other way for a more ecumenical (read less protestant) Church where North America and Africa can coexist on women's ordination and gay marriage.