(Part four of four)  Feudal governance makes the contemporary Church dysfunctional.  

“For it was the LORD, out God, who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, out of a state of slavery (meaning all of the Faithful rightly identify with those enslaved, either now or in the past) . . . .Then he took a large stone (i.e. statue) . . . and Joshua said to all the people, `this stone shall be our witness, for it has heard all the words which the LORD spoke to us . . . then Joshua dismissed the people, each to his own heritage” (Joshua 24:17, 26-28).  So it is ok to have statues commemorating good things, as distinct from “The Lost Cause” in the United States, that Confederate statues commemorate.  “I bless the LORD who counsels me; even in the night my heart exhorts me” (Psalm 16:7).  Liturgy of the Word, Reading 418, Tuesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time I.