Thanks for a well-written article. Eugene Kennedy was perhaps influenced by the critiques of professionalized institutions by Ivan Illich. His "Disappearing Clergyman" in  1964 was to me an eye-opener. He criticized schooling as the comodization of learning, health care as the comodization of health, and the priestly church as the comodization of grace. Doctors and teachers have, I think, outlived his critiques, but priests have had a more difficult time in identifying just what their professional role might be.