They could be the most important source, but I realize there's also a retrenchment going on in religious institutions, almost a return to authoritar-ianism. It is a crutch for inadequate leadership. Leadership comes from personal example. People can recognize someone who is a worthy leader. The Catholic Church is identified in most people's minds as an authoritarian structure, and it's very hard in that structure for the heart and the soul of religion to show itself because it's covered over by anxiety.
Authoritarianism is nothing but anxiety raised to a huge level.
We're all worried about homosexuality. That has nothing to do with people's holiness. Not a psychologist or a counselor or a social activist, but a holy person. There are so many other spiritual leaders who have some big agenda to create large organizations, which is the great problem in the Catholic Church. It focuses more on its organization than on its holiness.