By John Zmirak, a Senior Editor, The Stream - A Time to Prune - In order to root out the gay subculture which clearly commands some of the highest echelons of the Church, bishops will have to get much, much stricter, and implement Benedict XVI’s ban on gay seminarians… Without organized, relentless financial pressure from faithful laymen, I don’t see bishops making the kind of drastic reforms we need… Think of it as setting a small, contained forest fire to stop a much bigger conflagration. If we can’t put out the flames, within our lifetime the American Church could be a vast field of ashes, relieved only by all the millstones.