text: I would argue that sermons are boring because they don't challenge people to lead a more Christ centered life. The fact that so many priests and religious chose to abandon the faith and affirm people in popular dissent is precisely why Church's are closing. I don't go to Church to be affirmed, I go because my proclivities to addiction and sin need to be challenged. If I want to be good like our Father in Heaven, I have to first recognize my short comings. I do all of my brothers and sisters a grave disservice when I deny personal failing (my own and theirs) 
  
  Tremendous research has been done in the last 20 years on how pointing out hypocrisy can actually lead other to amend there lives. This is the work of ordinary priesthood.