One of the universal truths that Sr. Mary Adelaide, my sainted sixth-grade teacher, told us: Evolve, or die!  

It is a stark choice before us Catholics: Either we reform and renew our priesthood from parish to pope, or the Catholic faith and culture will never make it to the end of this century.

If you think this is hyperbole: North Africa - from Alexandria to Marrakesh, once was the spiritual greenhouse for Christianity that nurtured the nascent church.  Don't say it couldn't happen to Roma, as well.