text: I am not so sure we are so far apart on this one Alexandra.....and I do think/hope that the Church can make some substantive changes....
  
  Whether it will do so, I don't know. And those changes will require giving up power.
  
  The thing if it is this....time available for Church in this day and age has shrunk hugely....and so many other societal functions operate in that time vacuum. We count Catholics today as self defined 20% of the US pop...BUT of that group perhaps 20% (20 times 20) actually attend weekly for I suppose about an hour...
  
  I would argue that this minuscule crowd is not doing leadership stuff but simply attending a worship service...maybe reading scripture or distributing communion but I suspect that's about it.
  
  I am hard pressed to see major leadership emerge....rather functional worship seems to me to be the deal....