text: The best way to solve this "polarization" is to accept that laity and clergy have separate and intrinsic roles to play in the Church that are unique to each vocation.  The role of the clergy is to "teach, sanctify and govern" the Church.  The role of the laity is to evangelize the world in our work, our families, our leisure, in the marketplace of ideas, in the public square.  The clergy aid the laity in their mission by catechesis, the celebration of the sacraments, through their prayers, example, counsel and support.  The laity were never meant to "govern" the Church, nor are we meant to somehow assume the proper role of the clergy.  
  
  The best way to resolve this dichotomy is to accept the proper and unique role of our vocations and not to try to usurp a role that is not proper to us.