"[A main] reason they met was to reform the Catholic Church from within. That meant...getting the bishops to get their act together. At the time, many bishops did not even reside in their dioceses. And they often would hold several [posts].... Imagine if the archbishop of Boston were also archbishop of New York, and several other places, and didn’t reside in any of them... [and] the individual in question collected the income from all those places.... If you think we have trouble today with bishops, it was worse, it was a lot worse."
In The Boston Globe, Lisa Wangsness interviews Thomas W. Worcester, co-editor of The Papacy Since 1500: From Italian Prince to Universal Pastor.
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