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".
He said he cringes when
parishioners call him "your lordship" and the church needs to review
mandatory celibacy, which he thinks separates the clergy from
parishioners.