The Catholic Church should consider
getting rid of honorifics such as "your lordship" and give lay people
more power over parish priests, a NSW bishop says.
Parramatta Bishop Vincent Long Van Nguyen told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that titles, privileges and the Church's institutional dynamics "breed clerical superiority and elitism".
http://www.9news.com.au/national/2017/02/21/03/33/marist-brothers-sorry-for-shameful-abuse
Parramatta Bishop Vincent Long Van Nguyen told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that titles, privileges and the Church's institutional dynamics "breed clerical superiority and elitism".
http://www.9news.com.au/national/2017/02/21/03/33/marist-brothers-sorry-for-shameful-abuse