The Catholic laity should not be the only ones making those demands, nor should they have to be making those demands of their own clergy.
And it should be the Catholic clergy making the demands of the Catholic politicians, not merely the laity.
And obviously, not even a majority of Catholic laity are making those demands, as the majority of Catholic laity are showing - in the voting booths - the liberal politicians just where they stand.
In reality, Catholic politicians ARE listening to the Catholic laity.
Ghandi saw the hypocrisy in all Christians, otherwise he would have been a protestant.:)
He didn't become a Catholic either.
I did not use the word laity, I used the word Catholics, which includes clergy and laity, both of whom have become more vociferous in their demands.
What I am saying is that the calls are coming from within the Church itself as more and more see and understand the Church through the educated eyes. It isn’t as if everyone in the pews and every member of the clergy knew about these abusive priests.
I used the word static in a previous post in saying what the Church is not. The word I should have used is stagnant.
The Church is a living thing and is ever in a state of perfecting her members. She is not stagnant and must be ever watchful. That many of her members have been deceived into believing they can support and vote for heretical and unrepentant and scandalous and sinful politicians just means that her work is not complete.
I imagine were it complete, that would mean that Jesus has come back in His glory.
Ghandi didn’t become a Christian, which means he found no sect worthy of joining.