Quotes about Clericalism

We Catholics have been in the forefront in defending the dignity of the human person. Clericalism is a direct violation of human dignity.

Francis is at the mercy of an incoherent Catholic morality about all kinds of sexual expression, and he seems incapable of bringing the needed moral clarity and essential new structure of accountability. That incoherence in ethics and morality is itself essential to the malignant culture of clericalism that imprisons many, including the Pope.