[Mrs. Don-o]

I'm just jumping in and out here, because I have little time today; but I'm pleased to post this article by my old friend Mary Meehan, a faithful prolife warhorse I've known for 40 years or more, principled thinker and yeoman writer as well.

I think her reasoning is well-considered, and I hope you will too.

[Shark24]

Good stuff, thanks!

[GOPJ]

And while the Pope has not resigned, he has called a meeting of all bishops who head national Catholic bishops’ conferences to discuss sexual abuse within the Church.

The time for 'talk' is over... we've had 30 years of useless 'talk'.

Here are a few suggestions. First, all cardinals and bishops who have failed to deal with child-molesters and seminarian-molesters should resign, including Pope Francis...

This IS the logical first step...

[Preston Manning]

None-Catholic, but here’s my two cents:

I’m no canon law expert, but I’m pretty sure there’s no requirement that the pope be a cardinal prior to election, so casting a bigger net and looking at non-Cardinals for the papacy is just a matter of the cardinal electors being humble enough to say “none of us has what the church needs right now, let’s look outside our own ranks.”

I think the area that needs the most clean-up is the Curia...it’s become a dumping ground for priests and bishops who have disgraced themselves and need to be put somewhere out of the way.

On top of that, there are probably a lot of good priests in there doing purely administrative work while there are parishes out there struggling without a priest.

Aside from the handful of positions that absolutely require a priest or bishop, there’s no reason why many of these functions couldn’t be performed by lay people.

[dfwgator]

Cardinal Arinze would be my choice, but he’s up there in years, unfortunately.

[sitetest]

As Bishop Lopes has said, they all knew. They’re all guilty. None should ascend the Throne of Peter.

The Church should be run by a small council of orthodox, successful, retired, widowed married men with children for 40 - 100 years. Create them cardinals if necessary. Clean out the seminaries, and wait until a new generation of priests comes along, repopulate the episcopacy with them, and finally, the papacy.

[rmichaelj]

I think Bishop Fellay would make an excellent Pope

[MeganC]

I’m sorry but it’s now time to ask Rudy Giuliani if he wants to be Pope.

The Catholic Church needs someone to root out the rats and Rudy’s the guy!

[Biggirl]

Archbishop Vigano is a prophetic voice in the wilderness.

[Falconspeed]

Excellent insights from a non-Catholic. Vigano gets my vote, for sure.

The writer should give up the Catholic strategizing. “The Church should consider making celibacy optional for priests.” Wow.

Inversion is the cause of the problems in the Church. Period. Vigano said it.