text: Regarding: "The bishops, of course, will continue to rest in absolute security, their rights protected, their privileges untouchable, their every need taken care of."
  - This is a good article.
  - While bishops, especially those called to a local church, have authority of their office as head shepherd, the power for them to execute all the aspects of their office, sanctifying, teaching, governing, resides with the body of Christ, the pilgrim church, the laity.
  - Bishops have too easily forgotten the lessons learned from the laity's episodic discoveries of the rape of children and molestation of young people by clerics. That lesson being that the power over those you shepherd dissipates and you will find that besides loosing respect you will find your authority is dead to the community.
  - The laity then need to step up and remind the Bishops that our church is not for sale to the highest bidder. If a Bishop thinks that this is so then we should give to him 30 pieces of faux silver.