text: Therein lies part of the problem, as this priest pointed out.  Back then parents did not expect clergy to conform to some human idea of morality, they recognized clergy as the only means of achieving salvation.  If the clergy did something that laity considered wrong, the bishops were there to make it clear that the laity have no right to judge and apply the necessary threats to quiet them.  Now, people act as if clergy should be held accountable to civil authority merely because they violate secular law!  And, as this priest points out, the bishops let this happen!  How can a priest maintain his happiness if anyone can just go and accuse him of something and he will be treated the same as anyone else?  This poor, poor brave priest.