text: I agree, Brian. Those "sacraments" are not the center of faith for many Catholics now. We can have a Catholic Church without them as long as we have a Catholic church that prays together, supports each other in good and bad times, seeks together to do what is good in the world.  Sharing of bread and wine in a house church is as holy as sharing bread and wine in a cathedral - if it is done in memory of Jesus.   
  
  We can have a Catholic Church without an "ontological change" in priests. We need local leaders, spiritual guides and faith teachers, but that could be male or female, married or unmarried.  
  
  We can also have a Catholic Church without most of the dogma, doctrine, and teachings that were developed out of Judaic, Greek, and Roman cultures and schools of philosophy, a faith designed to make someone holy in 1st century environments of secular and religious all male rulers who considered themselves either divine or empowered by a divine right  to rule.
  
  I don't live there or then.