too. Consider what might happen if -- just consider -- the bishops made this pronouncement to re-establish Friday penance (and meatless Friday, specifically) and they found Catholic organizations such as the Knights of Columbus getting behind the effort to assist in the catechism? What if serious-minded Catholics praised the bishops when they (their Excellencies) took even one step back from the brink of the abyss? Following Fr. Z's logic on how to help spread the traditional form of the Mass -- wouldn't it be wonderful if, instead of whining about what spineless men we have for bishops, we helped encourage the use of the Sacrament of Penance by using it ourselves, and by practicing Friday abstinence both in a public and a private manner? Priests would see, as would their shepherds, that we WANT them to teach the truth, not the meaningless pablum which has passed for catechesis for so long. The whiners would then be on the other side, and we would have the backs of our bishops. Imagine what a phalanx that could make! I'm sorry folks. After hearing this latest, I'm wondering if his Eminence has a split personality or perhaps he suffers from blackouts. I suppose I'm grasping for some mitigating circumstance to exonorate him from what I see as some appalling mistakes and mis-wordings. Re-introducing meatless Fridays and re-emphasizing Confession is a good move, but coming from His Eminence so shortly after a disastrous re-election of a persecutor of the Church, for which he himself