[Quix]

I think you are far more perceptive . . . fair minded . . . and informed . . . than that sentence would imply, on the face of it.

[Mad Dawg]

Well I hate to disappoint you. And it IS true that some Catholics seem, like some non-Catholics, to view their clergy with misplaced awe.

But the Catholics I talk to will piously and reverently receive the Sacrament from the hands of a priest (or bishop) they think very little of personally.

For them (and I'm one of them) it's not the guy, it's what God is doing through the guy.