I agree. Yet I do cherish any small step forward, realizing just how lumbering the elephant is. My envisioned church would have paid bishops, but priests and deacons (of both genders) that emerge from the congregation and are not paid. Once priests and deacons are equated with clerics, they are trained in professional schools and hired by parishes, who do not have much knowledge of them and no part in their hiring. In most non-Roman churches, the community pays the priest's salary, but, if memory serves, RC priests are paid by the diocese. The fear of lay investiture is alive and well.