Calling Amerlia: The church needs you

  one exiled bishop who is still in good standing has posted an essay  telling the bishops in the US to go back to being pastors 

(this is) A real emergency – measured not in feelings, but in facts. An emergency measured by silence where there must be answers. In tolerance where there must be correction. In shepherds who refuse to name wolves, while those who simply want to guard the flock are treated as a problem. 

 Let me be very clear: this is not about personalities.... When men who openly contradict Catholic teaching are tolerated, promoted, even celebrated – while those who hold fast to tradition are restricted, sidelined, or ignored – something is upside down.... This is not about one group. It is not about one society. It is not about one bishop, or one letter, or one unanswered request. It is about a pattern – a pattern where orthodoxy is treated as dangerous, tradition is treated as suspect, and fidelity is portrayed as rigidity while error is praised as pastoral sensitivity....

 

.... I am not calling for rebellion. I am calling for honesty. I am not calling for chaos. I am calling for courage. I am not calling anyone to abandon the Church. I am calling the Church to remember herself....

 

Pray for bishops who will speak even when it costs them everything. Pray for priests who will remain faithful even when abandoned. Pray for Rome – not that it will manage this crisis, but that it will answer it. And pray for yourself. Because the line is already there.

*Why was he exiled? I am not sure but maybe because when a sports team honored transvestites who ridicule Catholic nuns and Catholicism, he led a prayerful protest against this (even though it wasn't his dioceses). Can't have that can we. It goes against ecclesiastical protocol...

. The local bishop, who is a good bishop, complained about the episode but also complained about the protest where people prayed, making one wonder about the backstory, but never mind. And this news story did note that some bishops sent them "Nasty letters".

Yes, it is so bad that one longs for voices that are actually noticed instead of the McCarrick bishops and hertical priests who usually get all the headlines.

 EcclesIsSaved satire blog suggests what the church might need is it's own Amelia:

Here she is with a bishop who is now in charge of regulating Catholic dogma, and whose nickname is "kissy" because he is most famous for writing a soft porn book on the art of kissing.

Well, one hopes some youngster who knows how to make AI will take up this theme, and maybe this will get some notice from the blockheads who are busy pushing synodality, which resemble the Marxist inspired meeting tactic that I remember from the sixties,  that let activists take over the meeting and silence those who go against their agenda.

Sigh.

So what can one do if one is a retired little old lady who is pretty well confined to her home due to age?

 We have our rosaries and are praying.