text: Really, R & R----'its the duty of the bishops to protect the human soul from the degeneracy of our age'?  Many of these bishops can't even protect themselves from greed, envy, and their desire to 'lord over others.'
  
  
  
  The question before the USCCB is 'Do we follow the gospel-message of Jesus as set before us by Pope Francis OR do we mire ourselves in cliques, in clericalism, in laying heavy burdens on the laity---which we lift not one finger to ease, and do we continue to fail to defend the 'dignity of the moral conscience' of the laity? [from Gaudium et spes 16].