As he and his wife, Lisa, prepare to give the opening keynote address at the 2022 World Meeting of Families in Rome, Dr. Greg Popcak writes, and Pope Francis agrees, that one of the major problems facing the Church today is clericalism.
Responding to a question about how priests can avoid falling into clericalism, Pope Francis said, “One dimension of clericalism is the exclusive moral fixation on the Sixth Commandment.” However, writer Greg Popcak contends that it’s the lack of accountability toward the Sixth
When the ordained ministry "becomes separated from the baptismal foundation" shared with all Catholics, Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich said, then the holy orders "needed for church life are replaced by some unholy disorders."
In numerous editorials over the last year, this editorial board has warned, in the wake of the latest round of revelations regarding clergy sexual abuse, that clericalism, both real and perceived, is leading people away from the Church. Any lasting solution to