text: I always get a chuckle out of reading your posts like this one, monica!
  I see things a bit different.  We can't realistically go back to the Biblical model you mention, just as we can't now continue with the "Bells of St. Mary" models of the 1930's - 70's.  Each served the existing situations of the times, and as this article and most comments show, those times in every way are gone and now part of our history.  What is to emerge for the future (while the Church is in a sort of "Limbo" right now) is as yet unclear, not even well-formed.  What is clear now is that the Catholic Church will be a smaller and "purer" Church indeed - but not the doctrinally "pure" one envisioned by Benedict XVI or the radical traditionalists insist on.  Doctrine will be - as is now a growing case for many - a part of the medieval Church that is discarded to the crypt of history.  A far simpler - and therefore "pure" = unpolluted - Church will be our home, with a total emphasis on Gospel teaching, IMO.