"Many years ago, when a certain English king declared himself head of the Church in England, all the Catholic bishops and public officials agreed that he was. All but one bishop and one public official. St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More were murdered for not agreeing, and hundreds of lay people followed them to the scaffolds. None of the Catholic bishops or public officials did. The Catholic Church was stripped from England like living flesh stripped from the bone.

I am a coward. The priests described above are cowards. The bishops described above are cowards."

I, too, am a coward. Too willing to go along with the crowd. Not willing enough to die. Me and most of the American bishops, and most of the bishops in the world. Too willing to be swept along in the tide of culture. I pray that I wake up. Pray for us.