text: Agreed.  Yet: at least we can soon expect two new cardinals, Cupich and Tobin, to make papal weight, eyes, and ears more present in the USCCB.  I certainly hope that both, though neither of them is the conference's president or vice-president, make clear through strong and decisive action (and, if necessary, words)  in which direction Pope Francis wants the bishops on these shores to move - namely, closer to their "smell of the sheep"-flock.  Sheep, as nature shows us, know where to be and are there sooner than their shepherd.  The Church on these shores is already there where bishops still need to go; it is not going to be the other way around.  Let's hope that where the Church is, the bishops will eventually also be - without fear, and trustful  instead of mistrustful of their fellow Catholics.  Then they might appropriately be called shepherds again....