My poor church

As Newsweek pointed out last month (4/18/05), more than 55,000 Catholic parishes in the world do not have a priest. (At least 3,000 of these parishes are in the United States.) In Honduras, there is one priest for every 13,250 Catholics.
Yet the Vatican continues to insist that priesthood and marriage are incompatible, and -- talk about being absolutely oblivious to the modern world -- even simple discussion of the ordination of women is forbidden.
Sometimes I feel like I'm reading science fiction on another planet...