WE want HALF of the seatS at the table. It is time to hammer home to the Vatican that THEY are not the Church; the laity are equally part. Stop the offerings in cash to get their attention. To be honest I think it it's too late; the damage done by the abuse scandal is irreparable. The victims and survivors are not being focused on, as the primary issue. All the attention is drawn away by organisational issues; which are secondary. How can you believe anything from the Vatican down; they are still in denial and are playing a waiting game, for it all to just blow over. They believe in their own marketing image and do not realise that their product is highly contaminated and out of date by centuries. The abuse scandal has just highlighted their decision-making process. We should be reopening their decisions to examine their authenticity. Did it ever strike you as strange that Lourdes; Fatima; & Knock quickly followed on from Pope Pious IX's extreme Marian devotion, from  the mid 1800's.