By Helen Freeh, The Catholic Thing - How can we sheep ask so much of our shepherds when we are not willing to be living examples of Christ to the world ourselves? How can our shepherds ask anything of the sheep that they are not willing to model first for us?... A mutual acceptance of the burden of rebuilding the Church needs to be made by each and every member of the Body of Christ, whatever their vocation. It is not a duty only for laypersons, nor for religious alone… Perhaps we are moving into a time of great destruction in which the institutional Church as we have known it for over a millennium will crumble, as happened after the fall of Rome and the conquest by Germanic tribes.