While what you say is absolutely true and I agree, that many of our priests and Bishops need evangelizing themselves, of first order should be the great and many thanks to the good Bishop Jenky for exemplar shepherding, and for his courageous and serious speech, which will bare its cost.
The Bishops are on fire over this religious liberty abuse and they have fully awakened to the peril of the Church that is just beginning because of this run on the Church.
The worm is turning.
I, for one, am not so enthused about harping on the past, but rather expecting the laity to roll up their own sleeves and get off the sofa. Weekly Sunday Mass attendance by itself doesn’t cut it. We need volunteers to be catechists and teachers, and CFP instructors, and educators.
These priests don’t even know Latin any more, and neither do we. They have had to get out of the prayer closet and hustle the dang fundraisers, wrestle the leaking roofs, handle the renovations, attend the committees and generally run a small industry of “missions”, all which keep them from the prayer closet, feeding their own spirit and learning their own faith. Rest, is pretty much out of the question.
God bless the good Bishop Jenky. A brave soul, telling it like it is—a meaningful start.
I wish our hierarchy here in NJ would catch some of this fire; our Catholics schools are closing at an alarming rate because the voucher issue has never been seriously pursued (and our public school bill is several thousand dollars per year per household). We pay “public school tuition” regardless of whether or not we use the schools, and the cost makes Catholic education inaccessible to most Catholic families. Our hierarchy has instead supported “targeted vouchers”, whereby poor urban (mostly non-Catholic) students would get relief while we continue shuttering schools.
I wish the bishops well in their battle, but will always remember that they got into it when THEY had to participate in/pay for ObamaCare; when it was just us little people (including Catholics and their own businesses) there wasn’t a peep from them.