"...they have to be given some voice in what is done and some share in the power...."

I wholeheartedly agree with you. I also tend to be more optimistic about Australia, which has an excellent Catholic secondary school system, run, for all practical purposes, by the laity. (The Australia Church educates one out of five Catholics in the country. That is impressive.) Right now, I think Australian lay Catholics are given, on a local level, a lot of "voice," as it were. And that voice will only grow. I am not sure about Ireland, but that Church also has an impressive Catholic school system, run mainly by the laity. The bishops will have to listen to the laity. I just think, owing to this mess or crisis, the laity in the developed world, at least, will have a much more engaging say in the running of the Church as a whole in their respective communities.