There is an IMPORTANT article at First Things – HERE
“Who’s Really Calling the Shots at U.S. Diocesan Chanceries?”
The article by Michael Mazza – a reliable, knowledgeable, experienced canonist whom I’ve known for a couple of decades at least – exposes something that most priests came to realize years ago, namely, that diocesan chanceries are in a fundamental way being steered by lawyers and insurance companies and that the rights of priests to due process (or human decency for that matter) are often ignored.
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This is basically what’s happening everywhere, no? Corporate media. Corporatism. Bad health care. The deep state. all can at least partially be attributed to lawyers and insurance. And the bigger the entity, the more likely they are to be able to afford the measures that lawyers and insurance burden them with. And corporations are amoral, so they don’t really care what those requirements are.
I can definitely vouch for this. I will say no more in a public forum.
The correct answer is “Susan from the parish council.”
Short but chilling! In some of the instances cited, the person making the final decision might indeed be a man in a black business suit whom everyone addresses as “Your Excellency” or “Bishop N… but the logical implication of their decisions is that such men do not hold the Catholic Faith… it is almost irrelevant whether they are ignorant or negligent, neither deficiency is becoming in a Successor to the Apostles. Truly the “Crisis in the Church” is a crisis of bishops!
I recently read a quote which has stuck with me: “Without faith a bishop has no meaning or purpose”… I forget who said it, but… YES! And much more eloquent than my usual rant: “What are they FOR?” Read and share widely!
Not only diocesan chanceries. It’s the same in provincialates of religious orders.