Good management never takes too much, or too little, advantage of authority. Any manager has the power to tell subordinates what to do. When managers won’t insist on using that authority to get good things done, they have failed. On the other hand, when managers overuse their authority, another type of failure emerges.
The above columns have been concerned with The Church and its management. Local dioceses are run by bishops, and we who are subordinate to them have to do what they decide is best. They know that, and they also know what a mess Vatican II has made of things.
It is hard to believe, but true, that many who supported the changes in Vatican II think that The Church is in better shape now than it ever was because of those changes.
“What!”, many of us reply in astonishment. “We see the Catholic diaspora into other denominations. The shattered infrastructure is visible all around us. We are appalled that anyone could think Vatican II has left The Church in better shape.”
One hallmark of the left is an inability to see that their positions have been wrong, are wrong, and will continue to be wrong. Global Warmers see the lowest solar output and the lowest temperatures recorded in centuries while still insisting that Global Warming is a real danger. Those who proclaimed the imaginary Ozone Hole Threat to be a danger to mankind still tell us to get rid of our refrigerators.
Politically, leftists can look at the destruction of Cuba, Zimbabwe, Russia, and Venezuela and go on insisting that things are better than ever in those countries, despite more famine, poverty, disease, and oppression than ever.
The “Mark of Cain”, in fact, may be manifested in the leftist inability to admit that one has erred, is erring, and will continue to err. Looked at this way, the “Mark of Cain” is replacing God with self, a mark made obvious whenever they opine about anything. Those with the “Mark” are easy to spot. They do a lot of opining.
