+Listecki's "Yes and No" Dance

Well, last night (Saturday) the Archbishop of Milwaukee offered a "penitential service" for the homosexual-predator sins of Churchmen and gave a rather passionate talk on the matter.  The service was NOT well-publicized (note the very sparse crowd) and apparently Channel 58 was the only news outfit which covered it.

Maybe that dis-interest on the part of news outfits explains the utter silence of +Listecki and his auxiliary bishops on Fr. Brian Massingale, or the festering pustule-question of ordaining homosexuals in the first place, or--for that matter--OTHER un-natural sexual practices, with or without the benefit of marriage?

Or maybe it's just .....well......let's see what Reno has to say:

...Yet among church leaders there’s no stomach for a battle over gay sex between consenting adults, not even when one of them is a clergyman. Narrowing McCarrick’s transgressions to sex with minors and abuse of power accords with our culture’s morality of consent. This approach indicates that the ecclesiastical establishment wants to operate on safe, secular terrain, not the Church’s tradition, which has become painfully controversial....

Reno goes on to describe the far-more-general crisis in the Church, and uses Vatican II as a landmark after which things simply went out of control.  But it's fair to say that the "Yes and No" dance of +Listecki flows directly from what Reno observes.  Reno phrases it as a maxim (spoken or not) of Church governance:  "Avoid opposing extremisms."

"Yes", says the Archbishop, "there are bad priests."

"No", says the Archbishop, "I can't do anything to shut them up."

At some point in time, the Archbishop's "Yes and No" dance will come to a very bad end, for the "extremism" of Right Order cannot be avoided and cannot be denied without cataclysm.

Oremus.