We are in a hiccup

"The real issues are that religion has dropped out of the critical stuff in culture and has banalized God, and the clergy have become caretakers stumbling along with no real leadership. And any leadership they get from the Church is, "Don't do this, don't do that.' The great prophets are not being listened to, the moral high ground has been given up, ... . We can only win by prayer and doing the tiny day-to-day things that generate good energy like helping some throwaway slum kids." -So writes Fr Joe Maier cssr of Bangkok in a biography on him, entitled "The Gospel of Father Joe" I read that and thought "Wow!" How true! I would say the same but in other ways. I always say that we live in a 'hiccup' in the Church's history. The institutional Church has become irrelevant, losing touch with its grassroots. People just move on and live even despite it.