[fortunecookie]

Because the power to establish "a Catholic identity" lies with (take your pick, dear Catholic consumer) theologians, USCCB staffers, the media, the Catholic media, the liberal Catholic media, the dissenting "Catholic" media, sociologists, and (I presume) Greeley himself. Anyone but the Pope.(bold emphasis mine)

Anyone but the Pope (and those who support him) rules here. In my diocese, it's the Bishop. First and foremost. He refers to our Holy Fathers Benedict and the late John Paul II as 'bishops of Rome', particularly when he disagrees with them. Rightly so, they are indeed Bishops of Rome. But...

There is a lot of attempts at deception, but it isn't coming from the Holy Father. Fr. Greeley needs a mirror.

[Arthur McGowan]

We have priests in our diocese who say, in the Canon, “John Paul, the bishop of Rome.” What is your diocese?