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Great post! I pray that JPII will remind the Cardinals of their responsibilities that were laid out so clearly at the Council of Trent, Session XXIII. From Chapter XVIII concerning the Method of establishing Seminaries for Clerics, and of educating the same therein.

"The bishop shall take care that they (Seminarians) be present every day at the sacrifice of the mass, and that they confess their sins at least once a month; and receive the body of our Lord Jesus Christ as the judgment of their confessor shall direct; and on festivals serve in the cathedral and other churches of the place.

All which, and other things advantageous and needful for this object, all bishops shall ordain-with the advice of two of the senior and most experienced canons chosen by himself-as the Holy Spirit shall suggest; and shall make it their care, by frequent visitations, that the same be always observed. The froward, and incorrigible, and the disseminators of evil morals, they shall punish sharply, even by expulsion if necessary; and, removing all hindrances, they shall carefully foster whatsoever appears to tend to preserve and advance so pious and holy an institution."

Seems straightforward to me.

I pray that JPII will remind the Cardinals of their responsibilities that were laid out so clearly at the Council of Trent, Session XXIII. From Chapter XVIII concerning the Method of establishing Seminaries for Clerics, and of educating the same therein.

Trent ??? Trent ???

First, if you ever ran into a Catholic today who knows that there even was a Council of Trent (the Vatican II amnesiacs), they's say 'oh, but the Council repealed all that.'

ARTHUR
Each evening from December to December
Before you drift to sleep upon your cot
Think back on all the tales that you remember
Of Camelot

Ask every person if he's heard the story
And tell it strong and clear if he has not
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot

CHORUS
Camelot, Camelot
I know it gives a person pause
But in Camelot, Camelot
Those were the legal laws

ARTHUR
Where once it never rained till after sundown
By 8 AM the morning fog had flown
Don't let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief, shining moment

CHORUS
That was known as Camelot

lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner