text: Unfortunately it is still often the case that the best the laity can do to be "co-responsible" is to resolve to drive elsewhere on Sunday.  Pastors and (these days) professional church staff too often set themselves up as impediments--or worse, wreckers--against the laity working to build the church.
  
  Even if a parish was going well, a new pastor with personal or ideological axes to grind can destroy the good work in a month or two--too fast to be protected by a diocese.  (And dioceses are reluctant to act against priests from confraternities or orders, even if the confraternity is in a death spiral, because it would mean they'd have to staff the church themselves immediately.)  
  
  It seems like the only thing that is solidly protected is the Extraordinary Form.  While that does a lot of good for the Church and probably saves souls at the margin (as economists say) it does not get to the heart of the attrition problem.  Would that the Ordinary Form and faith formation were as protected!