The Catholic Church suffers from a fundamental structural flaw. Its organizational structure is based on the “hierarchical model. It even goes so far as to call its management — the “hierarchy.”
Up until the second half of the 1700s, virtually all societies in the western world were feudal and followed the hierarchical model. Since the French Revolution most of the western societies have been diverging from the hierarchical model.
Finding itself in the company of some outdated monarchical practitioners, the Catholic Church has retreated into an outlier status in society by virtue of the fact that its organizational model no longer mirrors the society in which it rests.
In such circumstances it will continue to shed support. The only wonder is that it has survived to the current era at all.
Gerard Walsh, Port Elgin