The faith remains strong among Catholics both active and inactive. Leadership is scarce, inarticulate, missing and mostly party line pious prattle and uninspiring. We are losing nearly all of our youth and young families. We are closing parishes merely for lack of priests. We have mostly foreign born priests from non-English speaking countries filling in the gaps and leaving congregations confused, and uncared for. Bishops have jurisdiction over huge swaths of territory or huge populations. Ministry to priests, religious and faithful alike is once in a while, only. Meanwhile the church becomes even more irrelevant in both the U.S. and abroad.