text: I am hopeful too. The Australian church is heavily lay run with flourishing schools. One out of every five Catholics goes to a Catholic school. Their secondary schools are excellent and their new Catholic University -- Notre Dame -- is growing,  with nearly 20 thousand students at their main campus and satellite sites. However, the bishops, most of them, are  real losers, a sad bunch; but I doubt Australia will allow them to lose anymore, short of running them out of town. Sadly, none of these bishops have been put in jail.