The US Bishops have been serving themselves select salmonella-laced truffles from the cafeteria for some time now ... but with the selection of three new US Cardinals who are not part of the culture warrior cafeteria crowd, it seems that the seamless garment of Joseph Bernardin ... presumptuously declared dead by Weigel and other neocons ... will remain in vogue for some time to come. Alleluia, alleluia!!!

In 2011 Weigel wrote over at First Things that "It is not self-evidently clear what the post-Bernardin Era, just beginning, will turn out to be." It seems that Pope Francis is providing him with an answer ... a resumption of Bernardin's vision as the JPII/BXVI appointments retire and make way for a fresh crop of pastoral shepherds who are unafraid to smell of their sheep!