Jane,
congrats on the eye surgery: may it work well!  My wife had her first eye done two weeks ago, and this morning  scheduled the second for the 23rd.  Amazing what they can do these days.

I can honestly say I don't understand how the Spirit works.  I doubt the Spirit does anything directly, but if she is involved at all, she works through those of us willing to open our hearts.  And that speaks VOLUMES as to church leadership, and the length of time this abuse took place, the slow pace of change, and the refusal to adopt real change and episcopal accountability.  So for that bishop to seem to act almost puzzled that the Spirit might be creating a "strange disruption" through the actions of Francis and the Royal Commission struck me as symptomatic of the underlying problem here.  It seems pretty obvious that this "strange disruption" is EXACTLY what's been needed now for FAR too long a time.  I suspect that by "disruption," he refers to the bishops loss of control...  "strange???"