A Shepherd Vacuum

Are we sheep? Goats? Or are we merely dust bunnies?

I have never been to a gathering of American Bishops. (Not being a bishop rather precludes an invitation to a meeting of the USCCB :) I can only surmise what takes place there by studying the fruits of their endeavors – the documents they produce.

Are there decisions based on calculation rather than a pure trust in the simple truths of God’s Heart? Has the Holy Spirit been frozen out of the august body through the Leftist influence on academia and its atheist-driven philosophy of class struggle? Have the trappings of first-world affluence turned their collective heads, making them believe they are executives instead of men of God?

The only thing definite we can say about the good bishops according to their pronouncements is that they are non-committal. In that, they represent Relativism’s highest achievement and thereby operatively remove themselves from functional authority. If it weren’t for their Apostolic Succession guaranteeing the Eucharistic Presence from their fingertips, their prescription for behavior would be no different than the profane and the secular. And we are all-too-familiar with what the world teaches: “We have free will. If there ‘is’ a god, he’ll sort it all out at the end. Heaven forbid we impose on anyone as if there was Absolute Truth.”