Dorothy Day: "As a convert I never expected much of the bishops. In all history popes and bishops seem to have been blind and power loving and greedy. I never expected much from them. It it is the saints that keep appearing all thru history who keep things going....
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"What I do expect is the bread of life and down thru the ages there is that continuity...The gospel is hard. Loving your enemies, and the worst are of our own household, is hard." Oct 29 1968, letter to Gordon Zahn
The problem with the bishops isn't (just) that they are corrupt, it's that they got where they are by putting children at risk.
And worse.
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I can't pray for his happiness because when he's happy it's usually at someone's expense, I'll pray for his soul....