Penelope D. Johnson: Equal in Monastic Profession..

Adapted from: Johnson, Penelope D. Equal in Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval France.

Page 184.

"The presence of second - rate priests in poor nunneries contributed to spiritual and moral necrosis, a decay that could not be halted with orders and punishments in place of the badly needed financial remedy."

"NECROSIS -- The pathologic death of living tissue."

Humm ... maybe we can apply this to the American Catholic Church of today, huh ??