text: I continue to affirm: yesterday's generation of "brick and mortar" bishops have been replaced by the "lock and leave" generation, adept at patting themselves on the back into whiplash over their vaunted "stewardship" even as they destroy what previous generations achieved.  Yes, Catholics have "made it" in America, 100 years after Kennedy's birth: we have lost the faith and our parishes, but we are culturally in sync a la Nancy Pelosi, Teddy Kennedy, Rose de Lauro, and the whole generation that proclaimed a "theology of secularization" -- right out of the Church.