Oh, shoot, pat.  I was trying not to be so ...well... blunt.  But, the words you use work very well to describe some actions by the Church, behavior that worked in the past but is not consistent with how much of the world thinks and acts and lives in the present.  

There are no longer kings and princes with "divine rights" in the world of today - no absolute rulers who claim their power is from God.  Hard to understand or accept that change in how power and authority are claimed and used also affects the "princes" of the Church.   But they are not held in the same awe today as in the past and their claim of that kind of authority is no longer accepted to the same degree.  I think we are trying to figure out how much authority popes and bishops will have in and over our lives.  But it isn't and won't be what it was in the past.