True; and unfortunate. As Chairman of ABE Ministries (Against Basically Everything) I had prepared a firey speech peppered with adamantine analogies, dyspeptic denunciations, numinous non sequiturs and incandescent irrationalities that I was prepared to deliver in an obstreperous rant castigating everything that has happened since the Thirteenth Century and now it looks like all my work has come to naught and the Bishops will content themselves listening with faux interest to "experts" ceaselessly droning, blathering, dithering and temporising about "norms, programs, committees, canon law," blah, blah, blah...
Had they accepted my offer, sparks would have flown, calumnies been shrieked and the possibility of an entertaining fist-fight would not have been so remote that Vegas would have taken if off the Board. It's their loss...