We need a check on raw politics and power in our church

https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/distinctly-catholic/we-need-check-raw-politics-and-power-our-church
MGB: `My goodness how theologians and ex-seminarians support the status quo. The Church was most beaitful in persecution. She was all tarted up when she became the consort of the emperor and became a Madam when the Roman Church peddled the lie that the Apostolic See was superior the Imperial See. Of course, she went crazy when Sacred Continence was established and she claimed, falsely, that Mary had only one child and that Christ was a celibate asexual, recreating God in her own image.

That a failed Nuncio crazily penned a false accusation against the Pope who sent him home  is a minor footnote.He was  consorting with brother bishops who were selling themselves to the Republican Party. Not even a footnote is George Weigel and his hero, St John Paul (who ranks with SS. Pius IX and X for their paranoia). EWTN et al will not even be mentioned. As for Twitter, it will go the way of Netscape and Wordperfect.

Like Jazz, the Church has not died, it just smells funny. Under Francis, the Church has a chance at healing itself under the care of the Council of Eight, which has begun the process of exorcising the Roman Curia and the Episcopacy of several devils that had taken residence in the aging Madam's soul. Let us hope that this exorcism includes Catholic University, especially before the Dignity of Slavery is discussed in her halls.

The answer to the Church is not congregationalism, which denies the reality of  the Eucharist. Instituting modern democracy in the Church will not make her Protestant or Evangelical.  See the opening paragraph about theologians and ex-sems. An organization overhaul is absolutely necessary.  Hoping the Church will cure itself with spiritual conversion is like saying that sending pedophile priests to a retreat will make them ready to resume active ministry and contact with children, especially when their problem is their core sexuality, not just their behavior.

Francis stands with Christ, despite his own imperfections as his follower. So do I, despite my own. None of  us loves perf3ectlyh, but we will never change by changing our attitudes. It is our actions which change us and there is much action needed to restore the Church to health.