[Campion]

That mistaken assumption comes from seeing the priesthood as a status thing. And it's almost an inevitable mistake in a society where so many are concerned about status --- who can claim immunity from this tendency? --- and where so few are interested in being poor, chaste, and obedient.

Yet the really important and really interesting people in Catholicism are not the priests, nor the popes, but the saints.

To use a technical Catholic term: BINGO !

I would like to hear someone tell Mother Angelica, back in her heyday before the stroke laid her low, how "powerless" she was and how the Church wasn't "respecting her dignity".

The fireworks would have been most impressive.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"To use a technical Catholic term: BINGO !"

:o)