What's left of bishops' moral authority is on the line this week

https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/distinctly-catholic/whats-left-bishops-moral-authority-line-week
MGB: Just on the title, it is bizarre that Friday's column was about constitutional legitimacy being based on democracy, while today we are worried about the moral authority of the leaders in a despotic system.  The latter is the last place to find moral authority, since that comes from seeking the truth, not in preserving the organization, which leads to moral consistency, the enemy of the search for truth. Sadly, MSW and our anachronist commentators can't appreciate the irony. Indeed, they think that pointing this out is a scandal.

Moral authority would be to seek the truth about homosexuality and the end of mandatory celibacy, including for LGBT priests (male and female). It would also be renouncing the 13th Commandment (don't get caught). Experience has shown that the USCCB and its staff can do neither. It would be organizational heresy to even consider these questions. Neither will their staffs, who actually write their immoral screeds, thus protecting the party line. To even run for bishop, you have to be more self-righteous than the Pope (holiness is off the table). Not even Ivereigh goes far enough. Indeed, what he proposes is deaf to the culture of the bishops and all despotisms. Unless the structure is changed, the error will persist. Conversion is not enough.

The Church will not die. The bishops have been trying to kill it for 2000 years and have not succeeded. This crop is not nearly that talented. The question is when, not if, the Holy Spirit will prompt the rest of us to insist on change. It will not come from the bishops of any nation.