What was Moses thinking getting rid of that Golden Calf?

"It has been said that only a completely dysfunctional institution would seek to ban something which was actually bringing people back to church" -

A famous liturgist decrying the de facto ban on
the Rite for the Reconciliation of Several
Penitents with General Absolution

Should the Church be Marshall Fields? "Give the lady what she wants"?
Himself is constantly suggesting, since the Sister Act school of evangelization ("I'm talkin' about puttin' the fannies in the seats,") seems sometimes to be prevailing, that our parish get a barrista.