text: The result is a comprehensive, 872-page textbook that provides bountiful evidence for how the Catholic Church has addressed some of the pressing issues of our era: its continuing call for nuclear disarmament; its persistent efforts on behalf of record numbers of global refugees; and its denunciation of a global economy that Pope Francis says spreads a "throwaway culture," for example.
  
  Those are all laudable goals, but why, during the same time period, did the Vatican appoint so many bishops that were more concerned with SSM, contraception, and preserving patriarchy?