text: If one reflects upon the ideological alignment of the US Bishops (including some Cardinals) with the Republican Party around Ayatollah Trump and the right to alt-right one can see our western "leadership" rapidly cloning the ideological Muslim model. 
  It seems to boil down to the preservation of ideological privilege, personal advantage fed by the subservience of everybody else and their power to punish dissent and destroy everybody else.  Neither has the slightest idea how or willingness to try to deal with order in a world of moderation, inclusion, reason, and how to address difference - let alone evil.
  Clinging to what "monicadeangelis" terms the "Temple Priesthood Model" of Church is simply an evolutionary dead end. Redemption aside, for a moment, Jesus was smart. Whether "His" model can save the "repressed adolescence" model of hierarchy is a matter of faith in the Holy Spirit and a will to begin.