So DeusExMachina thinks that the firing of some scandalous bloggers has more to do with the realisation by the National Catholic Register that earning a living from a dying gang - what he calls "ZombieChurch" - is a bad business modell.
Whenever Pope Francis delivers a good speech or homily, my natural instinct is to assume that someone else wrote it. This happened as Pope Francis opened what is officially the synod on the family, although many have come to see it as the synod against the family.