NCR reports that Cardinal Rode, the initiator of the Vatican’s visitation of US women’s apostolic religious communities, is asking the US bishops to pony up the $1.1 million to cover costs. Hmmm….what if they gave a visitation and nobody paid? What if the bishops decided they had more urgent budgetary priorities, and just said no? Just a thought…

Lisa Fullam is professor of moral theology at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. She is the author of The Virtue of Humility: A Thomistic Apologetic (Edwin Mellen Press).

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