We Need Brave Bishops

If you were an American Catholic bishop in the decades prior to Vatican II, your chief problem as an administrator was how to manage prosperity. You had an ample supply of priests and seminarians and religious sisters. You had churches filled to the brim every Sunday at three or four or five Masses. You had a great multitude of generous Catholics who were quite willing to contribute money to the Church, including an ever-increasing number of Catholic millionaires who were happy to make very generous contributions. (In those days, a million dollars was real money.)