[sinkspur]

What's "strange" about that? Keating is right, and Luther was right about lay involvement confronting corruption in the Church in his time.

And laymen are (in case you hadn't noticed) having a hard time thinking of the bishops (as a whole) as arbiters of morality after covering up criminality.

The American bishops didn't even bother issuing a statement on the Iraq War, they're so compromised.

[317y]

This says it all:

They compared notes on seeing clergy in gay bars. Then Burkhart stammered as he asked McBride a personal question: "So, whenever you had sex . . . were you bound to go to confession and confess it before you said Mass, or . . .?"

"Well, you were supposed to, yes," McBride said.

"Do you think all these priests do?"

"No," McBride said. "I think they changed their minds and decided it's not a sin."