If the Priest is a Saint, the people will be holy.

If the Priest is holy, the people will be good.

If the Priest is good, the people will be decent.

If the Priest is only decent the people will be Godless.

The problem with Priests today is their good or decent. Where are all the holy priests? Their all being suppressed by their decent Bishops.

From the essay:

Priests who have the courage to insist on Catholic values against the pressures of the larger culture need to be brought back into positions of trust and authority. Priests who have abandoned the mind of the Church in favor of parroting the values of the surrounding culture need to be, at an absolute minimum, brought into obedience to Church doctrine and discipline. Those who refuse obedience should, according to the usual canons of due process, be removed from ministry. … [More]

Comments:

Interesting: Mirius makes the statement: “This will be accomplished only if lay persons quickly acquire sufficient Catholic identity to adopt one of the following three positions....”. And therein lies the crux of the matter; the Laity need to not only acquire and adopt Catholic identity, they need to make that their Primary identity. Catholic first, everything else a distant second. Those who don’t or can’t should be jettisoned and those found supporting the Democrat party … [More]