Inversion: When Laity Rule Over Bishops

“There is another, even more alarming development: the growing dominance of certain laypeople within Church structures. This power has become not only invasive but in many cases openly arrogant. A new lay leadership class has emerged that no longer sees the Church as a place of service—first to the Pope, to the Church, to God—but as an arena to wield the kind of power they never achieved elsewhere.


”Often, these are frustrated individuals, unfulfilled in civil society, who have found in the Church a place to shine, to control, to command. And it is ironic (or perhaps tragic) that after decades spent accusing seminarians and young priests of seeking “power” and “visibility,” it is now the aging '68ers who are legitimizing even more domineering lay figures—individuals who, emboldened by their “appointments,” act as if untouchable, and woe to anyone who dares to question them.”

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