“In former times, the secularization we have termed ‘employeeism’ which is seen in the mentality of those priests who recognize merely a disciplinary loyalty to a bishop, produced a harmful ossification in the Church. But today we can observe a new growth of this institutionalism in those who no longer consider the bishops successors of the Apostles, but rather mere functionaries of a human institution-presiding officers of assemblies of religious sects, or executive officers of a kind of religious parliament-men designated to carry out the will of the ‘People of God’. Indeed, there seem to be bishops who so conceive of their role. And these prelates, who have more or less accepted the ‘new theology’ (and thereby betrayed the depositum Catholicae fidei), often exhibit a bureaucratic legalism and clerical authoritarianism-the most obvious features of institutionalism-in their treatment of priests and laymen who refuse to compromise with the spirit of the world.”

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