The decision to appoint Cardinal Blase Cupich to the organising committee for the Vatican's February child protection meeting has already caused a good bit of a stir. He is, after all, the man who proclaimed, “The Pope has a bigger agenda,” and can’t get “caught in the weeds” investigating whether there was a thirty-year coverup of the behaviour of disgraced former Archbishop Theodore “Uncle Ted” McCarrick, involving at least three popes, three secretaries of state, and dozens of other senior churchmen. (He later apologised for these comments).