And again

To those who are calling for the laity to take a greater roll in the running of the Church: apart from the current generation being largely addicted to pornography and obsessed with all matters sexual, as well as being the worst catechized generation ever, there are other reasons to not rush into that minefield.

Remember below when I said that, of the original twelve bishops, within hours of being made bishops one betrayed him, and the rest ran away- one running away naked in his haste to flee- and the guy put in charge was swearing up and down that he did not know Him?  And also that the members of the office have not much improved over the years?  Well, there's also the issue of the laity in the bible.  There the ones who on Sunday were calling out Hosanna to the Son of David! and on Friday were screaming Give us Barabbas! So I do not hold much faith that they would be much of an improvement.

Changing the mechanics of the Church is a mechanical solution to a problem- but is the problem mechanical to begin with?  What if the problem is actually tactical?  The difference is fairly obvious.  When the Wright Brothers worked out the mechanics of flight, they found a mechanical solution to a mechanical problem.  What worked for them on December 3rd 1903 at Kitty Hawk would have worked on June 16, 1895 in France if anyone had come up with the solutions at that time.

Tactical problems are the exact opposite: they only work for specific times, places and situations. The series of moves that wins one game of chess may lead to swift defeat in another.  The military college problem of deciding whether to attack down the main road or the down the goat path depends on an assessment of which path the enemy is most likely to defend.  If the enemy realizes that the main road is most likely, then he will defend the main road, meaning that the goat path would be the best route to take.  But if the enemy realizes that the attacker will take the goat path for the element of surprise then he will defend that path, and the main road is the way to go, and so on, and so on, ad infinitum.  The 'right' answer changes with the situation, with the time, with the place.  A mechanical solution - always attack on the one path or the other- would only tell the enemy how to defeat you.

We have an Enemy, a deadly one.  He is constantly adjusting his tactics to get around our barriers and destroy us from within.  One of his greatest assets lies in our division.  Keeping us apart and preferably at each other's throats suits his purposes far better than our unity.  I do not know how that unity can be restored after such levels of betrayal and distrust- and the details are disgusting, and jail time is the least some of these people deserve-  but driving in further wedges and trying to apply mistaken solutions will serve him far more than it does us and Our Lord