text: It is so refreshing that lay Catholics in parishes in the New York area are showing the hierarchy that they do indeed have a voice and they demand to be heard. There has been too much cover up of clergy sexual abuse of children and vulnerable adults by popes and bishops for too long, and parents are not going to take it anymore.
  
  Instead of popes and bishops being servant-leaders like Jesus, many of them are princes who worship a false idol, in my view, because they worship the man-made rules of the institutional Church, and lack a personal relationship with Jesus, the Christ and the man, who gave us two commandments: to love God and to love one another. 
  
  Jesus asked us to come directly to him and that he would refresh us. Why is Jesus so ignored and Mary so revered by our hierarchy, especially when that same hierarchy treats us women like second class people and gives substandard reproductive care to women in Catholic hospitals?
  Sincerely,   Dr Rosemary Eileen McHugh, MD, MSpir