For the past twenty years, clericalism has been a helpful concept to identify the problematic culture within the clergy that is sorely in need of reform. In fact, it has served to focus matters needing reform not only concerning the sexual abuse crisis but also a wide array of other matters. Still, though reformers insist that clericalism embraces the entire clergy, from priests to bishops, they inevitably singularly default to reform of the priesthood. This article insists that now, nearly forty years after the sexual abuse crisis first broke, we must redirect our focus primarily onto the father of clericalism, “hierarchicalism,” a much more distinctive, protected, and powerful culture that has generated many of the contemporary problems in the church that compromise her mission.

在过去的 20 年里，教权主义一直是一个有用的概念，可以用来识别急需改革的神职人员内部的问题文化。事实上，它不仅将需要改革的问题集中在性虐待危机方面，而且还集中在一系列其他问题上。尽管如此，尽管改革者坚持认为神职人员包括从神父到主教的整个神职人员，但他们不可避免地会特别默认神职人员的改革。本文坚持认为，在性虐待危机首次爆发近四十年后的现在，我们必须将注意力主要转向教权主义之父“等级主义”，这是一种更加独特、受保护和强大的文化，它产生了许多当代教会中影响她使命的问题。