By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine - So, the plug will soon be pulled on the Diocese of Steubenville, leaving an imploding population to make its way two hundred miles west where the Diocese of Columbus has agreed to become our new home. How welcoming that will be, of course, remains to be seen. But why should that matter? It’s not as if the views of the laity were to be taken into account. Pray, pay, and obey seems to be the order of the day. And never mind the chorus heard round the world extolling the virtues of synodality. When you get down to brass tacks, it’s all about power, of which we laity have none to exercise.