And to quote a comment made [at a NRVC board meeting in August] by Fr. Ralph O'Donnell from the USCCB, "Jesus said, 'Feed my sheep,' not 'Count my sheep.' "—Dawn Araujo-Hawkins

One excuse is as good as another to avoid the need to remedy the ravaging dysfunctionality of Holy Mother, the Church.  “How great are the works of the Lord” (Psalm 111:2) does not mean merely passive acceptance of the way things are.  “Undeniably great is the mystery of devotion” (1 Timothy 3:15).  “Like children who sit in the marketplace and call to one another” (Luke 7:32).  Now is no time for playing around with things like the sexual coverup mess and with silencing theologians dealing with `uncomfortable truths,’ by posting “filler articles.”  Liturgy of the Word, Reading 445, Wednesday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time I.