There's a disease in many people..."I'm frozen until I have a pope or president I like"...and all problems that result after that point are attributed to "I don't have a pope or president I like".

This disease is a strain of a broader "clericalism"....all thought and comments and hopes and worries are somehow tied to this "leader".

Catholics need to wake up and realize that God is waiting for them to love Him very much...with our "all" at every moment of every day.    And that's all He asks of us. 

He doesn't ask us 99.99999% of us to go to Washington or to Rome...but instead is asking us to live the Gospel right where He put us, fully and completely and heroically, and not fall back into the sad habit of complaint about Rome or Washington.    To do so, gives these stricken people a sad and fleeting consolation.