All this ennui among the hierarchy could be ameliorated very easily by each parish and each diocese choosing the persons who would serve as their bishops and priests.  The problem is: the hierarchy is dangerously alienated from and hopelessly irrelevant to the lives of the very people they are suppose to serve.  The hierarchy especially is nothing more than interlopers into our lives.  If Catholics don't reform and renew their priesthood from parish to pope, we could well not have a church anymore before the end of this century.

The PEOPLE calling their priests and bishops to service ministry would get rid of most of what Papa Francesco has called "the lepers of the church":  all the clerical politicians in the hierarchy and priesthood.  Instead of being the spiritual feudal overlords of the People, we would have a servant priesthood again as was the rule in the primitive church.