text: The picture reminds me of "small thinking."
  
  It's a perfect example of some misguided efforts to "clericalize" the lay, putting ersatz "stoles" on "catechists". 
  
  The lay need to be formed not to be pseudo clerics, but to be better Catholics, better parents, better spouses, better workers, better citizens, better at doing apostolate.
  
  These people shown in the picture and the effort referenced in the article are simply smaller thinkers.  
  
  We mustn't try to clericalize the lay...we must learn truly what the lay vocation is in the first place.   It's much bigger than this author thinks.   The lay's job is to re-Christianize the whole world, every nook and crany...not to spread insense and holy water around the parish, pretending we're clericss.
  
  Even the push for "deacons", even on the male side is largely misguided. 
  
  What this supposed survey measured was a small drop in "clericalization of the lay".   
  
  So in that sense it's a good thing!