quite a way to put it! but yes, with the caveat that catholics keep their rich liturgy and intensive communions, but take on a more complicated relationship with hierarchy. not the protestant (evangelical) personal relationship with God, but also not the top-down hierarchy of rome. 1/

contingent hierarchies, elevated from beneath, neither slave to grass-roots passions nor insulated from accountability to members. (if that sounds like plain Madisonianism, sure, but maybe that's more tractable among self-selecting communities of interest than a mass public.) /fin