“Seduced by the Spirit of the Age (C.S. Lewis’s trenchant translation of the German Zeitgeist), the liberal American bishops have for far too long ignored their duty to teach and lead.”
You nailed it. It is like a parent that never teaches or disciplines their children and suddenly can’t understand why their teenager is out of control and won’t listen.
The Bishops need to start over and teach and lead or this won’t change.
I've been to this rodeo before. I used to be a < shudder > Episcopalian, and I saw where celebrity-worship and political expediency on the part of the leadership takes a church.
The Catholics are the best group (because the best organized) to spearhead a Christian revival. If the weak-kneed American bishops will just retire and/or get out of the way so that BXVI and his new appointments can kick posterior and take names (in the nicest way of course) then we can get started.