Well, I think you are being unnecessarily radical with this.  I'll give you the short reply:  priests and religious have been as essential to the Church as anything else.  Don't blame us for the ills of the Church entirely, and our retirements are well deserved and rarely taken until ill health pushes us into it.  But I DO very much agree that it is the ritualistic, caste oriented culture of the Church that badly needs removal.  Let's hear it for priests being allowed to be priests  and not forced administrators of buildings, and for religious to do the work of their own charisms without filling-in where there is a pressing priest shortage, but pressing the bishops who must do what the men of the Association of Priests are asking them to do.