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My Church's hierarchy doesn't talk nearly enough. My goodness, how they do like silence. How Mahoney did so long for the silence of all the victims of Olivery O'Grady. How the bishops who were supposed to have placed the safety and spiritual well-being of my nephew and my good friend first longed for their blissful silence.

No more. No more silence. I don't like the NYT as a conservative, but as a long-suffering Catholic I wish personally to thank Laurie Goodman for forcing these pips to squeak. The hierarchy has proved itself utterly incapable of change absent some existential crisis. I want change so I say bring on that existential crisis. I want to see all complicit in this - from Pope Benedict on down - face the full brunt of the law (including a fair and public trial, of course). I want all talk of the canonization of JPII to STOP IMMEDIATELY until we figure out why he covered up so much of this filth during his long watch.

And I want them to admit finally that living a celibate life is for the great majority of people, and while recognizing celibacy as a real vocation for a few, unnatural and the source of much spiritual disease. After all of this we the laity have a right to demand married parish priests and and absolute end to these perverts in Roman collars.

I want the hierarchy to see that their privileged positions are contingent wholly on their service to Catholic families. They are there for us, we are not there for them. Having so many of them gay creates an us-versus-them mentality. They're all just so vewy misunderstood, you see. Scumbag Weakland comes to mind. Recently in Milwaukee, my brother tells me, Weakland said mass at the Cathedral he ruined with his pastels (yes, the drag queen gutted a Christian cathedral and painted the insides pastels, no surprises there). They had a mural with Weakland leading a group of kids. (!!!) My brother was shocked. He said that he took it as a real finger in the eye, as if to say "hey, you dumb breeders, you exist to support us gay artistes, so STFU and hand over your money and your pretty boys."

To hell with Weakland and to hell with any Pope who could allow such an affront to the laity.

I'm a Catholic, and I remain one. But I gotta tell you, after all I've seen, I'm getting a real soft spot in my heart for Martin Luther.