He means shut up about it.

Pope Francis warned U.S. Catholic bishops against disunity in the church, after months of conflict between the bishops and the Vatican over how to respond to the clerical sex abuse crisis.

Catholics “continue to suffer greatly” from clerical sex abuse and coverups by bishops, “as well as the pain of seeing an episcopate lacking in unity and concentrated more on pointing fingers than on seeking paths of reconciliation,” the pope wrote in a letter distributed to the bishops this week as they gathered for a spiritual retreat outside Chicago.

He also rebuked the bishops for “disparaging, discrediting, playing the victim or the scold” and admonished them to “break the vicious circle of recrimination, undercutting and discrediting, by avoiding gossip and slander.”

Do what you’re told. And pay no attention to people who criticize me.

Takes us back to Cardinal Cody.

Interesting, well done. Capsule study with a few new items. Part of UK’s Catholic Herald’s new U.S. coverage.

Put a cork in it, LeBron.

Discuss, discuss, let’s all discuss.

Another papal flop in trying to reform the Vatican swamp.

A Catholic education success story:

Washington D.C., Dec 27, 2018 / 02:30 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- As urban Catholic schools nationwide are closing their doors, it may come as a surprise that the Catholic Cristo Rey Network says it is on-pace to expand to a total of 50 schools within the next decade. The network says that it can provide Catholic education in low-income areas for a fraction of the cost of other high schools.

What’s the secret? Through a unique arrangement called the Corporate Work Study Program, Cristo Rey students are placed in entry-level corporate positions for five days a month. Instead of being paid for their work, students earn their tuition.

The Corporate Work Study Program began in the mid-1990s, when Chicago Jesuits were seeking to better serve the city’s Latino community. After surveying residents, they discovered that they most desired a college-prep high school in their neighborhood. When issues of funding came up, the Jesuits assigned to create this new school reached out to a “very creative, original thinker” for ideas.

“They asked [the consultant] for some ideas about how to sustain a private school for students and families who could not afford to pay for it. He came back with the suggestion that every student have a job,” Fr. John P. Foley, S.J., founder of the Cristo Rey Network, told CNA.

“That was the origin of the Cristo Rey concept.” . . . .

Chicago Jesuits did this. Let’s hear it for the home team.

My nomination for lede of the week:

Christopher Steele leads us to Stefan Halper which leads us to Sir Richard Dearlove and the members of the Queen’s Privy Council and the world-wide propaganda of the Tavistock Institute which keeps free-roaming humans thinking that they are free, but in actuality we are all being people-farmed by the British royals.

What if he’s right? The redcoats again? Thought we dealt with them long time ago.

The Donald loses it.

NEW YORK — When workers pried the Trump name off another Manhattan building earlier this year, it capped a bad few weeks for the president’s businesses.

Donald Trump’s golf resorts in Scotland had just posted millions of dollars in losses, one of his hotels in Panama had rebranded itself a Marriott, and New York officials announced they were looking into how he avoided paying tens of millions in taxes.

All that, along with the daily drumbeat of Trump tweets and headlines about investigations into his administration, led Austin, Texas, tech executive Gary Barrett to finally give up hope of ever turning a profit on an apartment he bought as an investment in a Trump tower in Las Vegas.

Etc.

For an inveterate money-maker, he has not played his cards right.

As opposed to his immediate predecessor, who rose from sometime community organizer to high-life liver worth millions.