This is the way the world ends --- Not with a bang, but with a whimper !!! DI MARZIO'S PRO FORMA RESIGNATION IS QUICKLY ACCEPTED BY THE POPE

As Snagglepuss used to say  >>>  "EXIT ---  STAGE LEFT !!!!!"

Less than a month has passed since the New Jersey born and bred Roman Catholic Bishop of Brooklyn and Queens Nicholas DiMarzio was publicly "cleared" of sex abuse charges by a formal high level internal Church review of the facts  ---  Nonetheless, Pope Francis quickly accepted the routine tender of his retirement papers upon turning  75 yoa from the recently embattled tough-guy bishop "Nicky Mars"

Things don't usually happen this fast among the higher-ups in the Roman Catholic Church unless there is a very good reason for it.  ---   In this case, there is still the very troublesome civil lawsuit brought by Mitchell Garabedian  based upon the claims of two men that DIMarzio had sexually abused them many years ago when both had been boys  in New Jersey, one a pre-teen altar boy, the other an infant of six.....  

And even though the formal Church investigation by Cardinal Dolan had formally exonerrated the Bishop of Brooklyn  >>>  there can be little doubt that there were other credible sotto voce reports and/or communications that did mention other relevant, but very "confidential" information about Bishop Di Marzio that worked their way back to the Vatican  ---  so much so, that it was necessary to give Nicky D the quick boot, and quietly to find, vet and then publicaly name DiMarzio's successor  on a very, very fast track

Let's see whether the newly named Bishop of Brooklyn and Queens, a fellow by the name of Robert J. Brennan, now a 59 year old bishop in Ohio, will change lots of things from the way they were done under Nicky Mars  ---  like handling new and old sex abuse claims; addressing social inequality and unrest; and openly dabbling in partisan politics

Boy, the folks at the Vatican can check a lot of boxes very quickly,  WHEN IT'S IN THEIR INTEREST TO DO SO.....

Make no mistake about it. Everything that's become obvious to the rest of us in the last month vis a vis Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio has been part of a big and well-orchestrated attempt at damage control by the Holy Catholic Church of Rome  --- and necessarily  ---  each and every part of it has been in the works for well more than a month.....  

Let's see what happens next.

It might be sooner, or it might be later, but sooner or later comes the part when somebody like Paul Harvey says,  "And that's the rest of the story...."