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I'd say we know a bit about covetous or drunkard bishops and have for years. Even Chaucer was not the first to write about these people. What WERE pardoners, if not covetous?
I wonder exactly HOW high a standard we hold our religious leaders to. Hmmm... let's see, pedophile priests and the church REFUSES TO NAME THEM. Ha! High standards indeed. The very system they're offending protects them.
I'm fine with the first gay Episcopal minister. In considering my local Chicago news stations poll last night, I fell in with the 20% who votes they would attend a church with an openly-gay minister (IF I believed in God, which I do not), rather than the 73% who said they would not.
There's a neat book I saw on the shelves a couple of years ago either titled or sub-titled "Why the Catholic Church must Change or Perish" that addresses concerns like homosexuality and other modern issues going beyond the ability of the church's long-existent dogma to address. The church can stick with the same interpretations of the text and be as strict as it wants -- but if the congregation moves on, it will drift apart from the church.
And, Catholocism and some of its dogmatically-similar offshoots will suffer this worse than others, as so many obviously outdated ideas (i.e. every sperm is sacred, no birth control, population growth is good) are still lingering around the godhead.
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