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From: "Vern Humphrey" 
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To: seanmbrook{at}aol.com [mailto:seanmbrook{at}aol.com]
> > >
> > VH> But can they reverse the Gresham's Law of organizations,
> and drive out
> > the
> > bad bishops?
> > >
>  In time, yes!  Because we need to remember the
>  Church is not a merely human institution.  The
>  promptings of the Holy Spirit will also lead to new
>  and far better bishops eventually coming to the
>  fore.

If the Holy Spirit was going to do it for us, why did He allow this mess in
the first place?
>
>  Simply recall what a mess the Church was in, say,
>  1014, after two centuries of the anarchy and chaos
>  following the death of Charlemagne.  But by the
>  time of the Concordat of Worms, the situation had
>  almost completely reversed itself.  E.g., one thinks
>  of the series of reformist popes beginning after 1046.
>
Yes -- but we live NOW.  To hope things will get better after we're gone
isn't much comfort.
>


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