Nightline......
is not the best thing to watch at bedtime. But I slept fairly well, considering that I had watched Fr. Richard McBrien blather on as guest theologian on last night’s Nightline. He shows up more often, of late, wearing clerical black. (I’m a girl.......I naturally pay attention to what people are wearing) He choice of clothing, to my jaundiced eye, is a deliberate attempt to look like a ‘serious’ theologian..........and I believe there have been times he has shown up on TV wearing some sort of generic male casual clothing, which was also meant to look ‘serious.’ His sense of what will make him look appropos to the situation is very finely tuned.

Fr. McBrien, in his wisdom, doesn’t think the Pope is capable to appoint anyone good to the post of administrator of the Archdiocese of Boston. Just a lot of “meet the new boss, same as the old boss’ stuff. Why didn’t he just get straight to the point and declare himself smarter than the Pope and worthy of the Pope’s position by virtue of his superb insight. What a smug, smirking, snarky creep.