Bishop Tobin blames the fallen away for falling away.  He even admits that some criticisms of the priests and the liturgies are justified, but no one with faith would stop attending Mass.  I believe Bishop Tobin is way off the mark.  

In Andrew Greeley's The Making of the Pope 2005, he says we need a church that listens.  It doesn't sound to me the Bishop Tobin has any interest in listening.  He has decided he knows it all already.  This kind of attitude is the undoing of the Catholic Church.  It is interesting that this column comes right after this Sunday's Gospel where Christ meets the Samaritan woman at the well.  Jesus meets and converts a woman that by the religious standards of his time he shouldn't have even been speaking with.  I wonder what would have happened had it been the bishop there rather than Jesus.  Instead of writing people off as unclean or unredeemable, we need church leadership that engages people where they are.