Jack Doherty has a Doctorate in Theology from the Catholic Theology Faculty of the University of Freiburg, Germany. He has served as a Catholic priest in parishes in the United States, Germany, and with the United States Armed Forces. He has written The Communication of the Christian Message in a Secularized Society, (published in Germany) and How the Catholic Church Became Naughty...and Where the Real Hindrance to Reform Lies.
Pope Francis called his cardinals and bishops vane and power-hungry. For 17 centuries they have been handing on the Vatican mindset of clerical arrogance and a self-estimation of superiority over everyone and everything.
The author points out how outsiders, how only a priesthood that includes celibate, married, male and female priests will bring about reform of the Catholic Church.