Going Digital

I feel sorry for our bishops.  They are hard wired to follow whatever the pope says.  They are not picked because they are pastoral, brilliant, engaging the culture, personable, independent thinkers.  They are to toe the line of the Vatican.  The bishops are hardwired to do this.  Most of them have had very little real pastoral experience.  They do not live in the world of "grey,"  where most people live.  For the bishops it is all black and white.  But now we seem to have a new kind of pope.  It is a bit like having a digital pope, and an analog bishop.