So in other words what you're saying is let's just sit back and continue to see things though (imperial) Rome colored glasses. Pay no attention to clerical malfeasance and centuries of injustice within church ranks. Let's keep on pretending that God/Jesus intended to create three classes of humans--men, women and celibate male-only priests as alter Christus. Let's not consider new advancements in science, technology and (God forbid) theological re-assessment and understanding. Let's just continue to do as the Romans do and all will be okay, despite deeply-held convictions throughout the civilized world that imperial legislation enacted during the middle ages is not the best way forward for the Church (people of God)... nor was it divinely inspired for that matter. Lay people should just pray, pay and obey ad infinitum and then "crawl back to the parish" to receive sacraments and blessings from the holy, exalted clerics who are the true gatekeepers of the bread of life.