text: With the exception of King Henry VIII, virtually every disaster in the church has been caused by the "ontologically different" clergy with the laity as their victims. The present church model just isn't working. The hierarchy either doesn't care or is incompetent. Judaism and the Bahai Faith illustrate that an organized religion can function very well without a clergy. While it will not happen in our lifetimes, a future iteration of Catholic Christianity will be one without clergy.