text: It's always struck me as strange that American Catholics accept capitalism and the free market as the way to run society but they don't demand the same when it comes to the clergy imposed from on high on them. I look forward to the day when parishes who lose their priest for whatever reason, put an advert in the Press that they require a new priest. The Parish Council invite candidates for interview, short list a few and invite them each to do a weekend in the parish, saying Mass, hearing confessions and preaching. Then the parishioners vote on who they want and offer her 😉 the position. It would put an end overnight to the little Hitler syndrome as described above. 
  We'd soon see how dearly held the values of the Latinate fraternity were when they had no parish.