https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/distinctly-catholic/bishops-meeting-bombshell-vatican-says-no-voting-abuse-crisis
MGB: The Pope is as smart as he is holy and this act is the best way to shut up his critics in the USCCB. It also will serve to create a worldwide solution to this affair, or at least publicity about what may be largely historic abuse. The traditionalists cannot fight back, as at heart they are untramontainist and cannot publicly resist the office for much longer.
The question is, what will happen in February. What you project depends upon where you sit. Rome could decide to control the situation more (including how it appoints bishops). This would mean,however that it would have to start selling the artistic property it now considers held in trust for future generations (even though, while beautifully composted, is culturally relativistic - and not in a good way).
It could go the other way and behave more like the Anglicans (not the congregational protestants) and give local clergy and the people not only a say, but control over the election and elevation of bishops and archbishops. Even further, it could let the bishops of a province elect their own metropolitan, as well as letting the metropolitans elect a local autocephalic national or linguistic patriarchs, further eroding the papacy to just another such patriarch. He could also do both. I would not put it past him.
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