John S. Cummins, the former bishop of Oakland who repeatedly wrote his superiors in Rome urging that the priest be defrocked, said the Vatican in that era, after the Second Vatican Council, was especially reluctant to dismiss priests because so many were abandoning the priesthood.Optimus contemplor, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
Distress ferments the humors, casts them into their adapted channels, throws bad redundancies, and helps feather in those secretive distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the man fake with cheerfulness.
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