Regarding: "Foremost among these is the need to stop making Vatican officials either bishops or cardinals. The papal court must die and be replaced by a professional civil service. As long as Vatican officials are bishops and cardinals, they will see themselves as princes of the church. "
- The fundamental problem is that the Holy See and the Vatican City State are to entwined.  
- So, the universal church does not sign or enforce international treaties, yet those who should be pastors of the universal church more often than note speak for the head of the Vatican City State, the Archbishop of Rome, but are not responsible for the Vatican as State in the community of nations. That this is a problem is best seen in the fancy stepping of canon lawyers as they explain to the United Nations and World Court, 'no the treaties do not apply to the Holy See, but to the Vatican City State.'
- In the end, the monarchy is kept safe and the retainers seek the titles of its court.