mountain dweller, I wish I could 'star' your pithy comment ten times. That insight can also make way for some compassion for the man, tho in his 'tour' in the last diocese, he had no mercy for the elderly devout whom he had no time for, nor for any other than his cohort who either depended on him for a job, or genuflected to him. It ever appeared he was trying to be noticed by the Vat through the prior two popes, both of whom were disgraces regarding sexual intrusion on children by priests and hearing and hearing of it in letters from parents of children and adults who were intruded upon as children-- and yet purposely ignoring the innocent. Yet, those were the ones Chaput was courting. 

SOmetimes I wonder if there is anything to the old wives' tale re 'napoleanic complexes. Chaput is a very short man. Very. On the other hand, I've seen the look of some strange grinning ecstacy on his face when he thinks he's recruiting young men for 'a vocation.' His response is eerie imo.