This situation is another example of cleriical incompetence.  With the exception of King Henry VIII, virtually every church disaster has been caused by the " ontologically different," The clergy are unable and/or unwilling to deal with the church's problems. Not surprisingly, the laity are not buying into it or leaving a church that the clergy have made so unattractive. While it will not happen during our lifetimes,  a future iteration of Catholic Christianity will be one without a clergy. The status quo simply isn't working.