General Discussion

30+ years of packing dioceses with ultra-conservative bishop i explains a lot! I was not at all aware of that, but it fits right in with what I know of them both.

I was raised protestant in an overwhelmingly protestant part of the country, but have spent the majority of my adult life in the heavily Catholic Chicago area, married to a man with Catholic parents. (After baptizing him in the Catholic Church, they gave him absolutely no Catholic religious training, for some reason; so we were always the 2 non-Catholic weirdos at family gatherings. )

In all these years, I've learned a lot about the Catholic Church, but some aspects of it will probably always be puzzling to me. This (bishops arbitrarily deciding that a guy who is obviously a practicing Catholic is not one) makes no sense to me at all.