The Blood is the Life, Part VII (A Modest Proposal)

Well, gentle readers, it is now time to wrap up this little series of essays on the crisis of the Roman Catholic Church. As I have remarked in Parts I-V, I have diagnosed that that crisis is a direct result of the failure of Roman Catholic bishops to exercise their unique charism as teachers, and to teach candidates to the diaconate, the presbyterate, and the episcopate a humanistic, scientific, philosophical and theological education in accordance with the Vatican II document, Optatam Totius.

And the cure to that same crisis (as I mentioned in Part VI) is for those bishops to get up off of their dead, er, cathedras, to teach themselves that above-mentioned tuition, and to begin the task of a remedial education for their clergy and their people.

Of course, knowing what we do of most RC bishops these days, the probabilities of that are obese. In short: fat chance. And for much the same reason, the chances of modern academic seminaries accomplishing that task are equally as fat.

In an ideal world, my modest proposal would be this.