What nerve!

Apparently certain Portuguese bishops think they are free to openly and blatantly contradict the Pope on matters already decided by the Church. No wonder that even secular news agencies consider the Pope's "worst enemies" to be those inside the Church. In one recent case, a bishop said that a moral evil could be "ethically obligatory"! Another had the nerve to say that Pope Benedict's orthodox comments were "equivalent to consenting to the death of many people” - despite the fact that empirical evidence proves otherwise. Another bishop said that some persons "cannot avoid" having intimate relations! One Portuguese bishop said the Pope's advisers should give him "more learned advice". Perhaps these advisers could give "more learned advice" by suggesting the removal of certain bishops? [3/30]