There is a need for much reform in the Church.  The Hierarchists have advanced a belief that God is an Ogre that must be placated so that people can go to Heaven, that keeping out of mortal sin is all important (no time for charity and no room for letting the government do it either, else we would be coddling the poor in their challenges in overcoming sin - it is almost Brahminism).  In their Church, Jesus is not knocking so much to get out of the box as escape it.  This is a Jesus that has mercy on women who cannot get pregnant lest it kill them but still want sex, the cancer patient who sees no life in front of him to mother carrying a child with no hope of a live birth.  This crowd cannot bear the thought of flexibility.  They also like controlling the Church's money and property hierarchically, who make the washing of the feet on Holy Thursday an empty ritual.  They insist that all of this is irreformable, that Jesus will not allow change and if the pope makes it, the pope is a...