text: Your last paragraph speaks for me, too.  Thank you for saying it so clearly.  No, I do not "submit" to priests, bishops, cardinals, or popes.  But I do listen and consider carefully what they say.  They are all human.  God promised to always be with His church, His faithful, but He did not promise to make a one of them or us perfect.  He will stay with us through all our foibles and failures - those of the Church and those of each of us.