text: I have many similar sentiments about the church hierarchy and priesthood.  The Catholic hierarchy has demonstrated repeatedly over time that it is dangerously alienated from and hopelessly irrelevant to the lives of the very people it is suppose to serve.
  
  As Catholics watch this painfully slow implosion of the hierarchy [it could take centuries - they don't call Rome the Eternal City for nothing!] Catholics need to take matters into their own hands:  The Catholic priesthood must be renewed and reformed from parish to pope.
  
  The PEOPLE are the only ones with the competency to re-think and re-envision the Catholic priesthood.