@V.R.S... Sorry but I don't understand what or why you have written what you did.

I said..."I praise John Paul II for Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life) which infallibly elevated the condemnation of abortion to the same authority as the founding of the Catholic Church by Christ and all the Marian dogmas" which is undeniable an infallible doctrine of the Catholic Church.

You quoted "By his incarnation the Son of God has united himself in some fashion with every human being" which seems true to me.

You quoted "positive cooperation with our brothers and sisters of other Churches and ecclesial communities, in accordance with the practical ecumenism which the Second Vatican Council authoritatively encouraged". I have been a sidewalk counselor for 15 years, 10 years of which were alongside Protestants. It is undeniable that they also save mothers and babies from abortion.

You quoted "But in a way that child is also a figure of every person, every child, especially every helpless baby whose life is threatened, because-as the Council reminds us-"by his Incarnation the Son of God has united himself in some fashion with every person". I cannot imagine what you object to in this quote.

Please let me know, thanks.

@Live Mike All Supreme Pontiffs delegate that responsibility. Bishops are not selected at the Papal level, meaning: with the direct and personal knowledge, intervention and explicit involvement of the Holy Father for the thousands of dioceses and ecclesiastical jurisdictions throughout the whole world. The initial selection begins at the local level long before a candidate is approved by the Holy See. And even then, for most diocese, the Holy Father’s direct and personal knowledge and approval of their Ordinary or episcopal candidate is only perfunctory. Most of the time the Pope himself is entirely unaware of the various idiosyncrasies surrounding such machinations as are often laid at his feet by his clueless and enormously inept critics, who clearly are totally ignorant of how the wheels of the Vatican turn and how the Church, with 1.5 billion members, 5,800 Bishops, and half a million Priests, actually operates and is governed. To read here and on other sites some of the things allegedly and supposedly done with the direct knowledge of or carried out at the personal and explicit command and behest of the Holy Father - especially with regard to local issues like the one about the Bishop who is the “Co-Prince” of a small State huddled between Spain and France, which are beneath his direct attention and are handled and decided by a Curial Dicastery or the Vatican Secretariat of State - is simply laughable.