Leaked: Vatican Questionnaire For Finding Potential Bishops
In the last decades, the overall quality of new bishops has been abysmal. The questions ask about:
• physical appearance and health
• intellectual capacity, character and sense of responsibility
• formation, virtues, piety
• behaviour, moral conduct, social skills and “relationship with government authorities”
• spoken languages, written books
• orthodoxy, Adherence to the Doctrine, especially male-only priesthood, and sexual ethics
• fidelity to Francis and the Vatican
• pastoral skills like preaching, ecumenical spirit and attention to the poor
• dealing with homosexual abuses, if there are “reasonable (especially public) criticisms” concerning such cases
• administrative capacity like use of Church property
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