Sad. Something is clearly not working. We want to blame the bishop and the Church, but this is part of a larger pattern as secularism and reluctance to be part of a larger reality continue to assert themselves. Every church is struggling. So are the Elks and the VFW. Something larger than the limited perspective of your average hierarch is needed. My own wonderful bishop, for instance, takes our pitiful number of priests as the new normal. He operates as a CEO, and the overworked pastors of our huge parishes are forced to do the same. When he gets together with his fellow bishops, are there any larger ideas? Hard to imagine.