Op-Ed Contributor: For Priests, Celibacy Is Not the Problem
In the 1950's, according to a study by Ben Gaffin Associates, 40 percent of Americans (Protestants and Catholics alike) rated the sermons they heard as "excellent." In 2002, according to the National Opinion Research Study, 36 percent of Protestants still found their sermons excellent, compared to just 18 percent of Catholics.

Is the decline in excellent preaching due to poor sermons or outdated methods of proclamation? Clearly there are many pastors and priests who can't preach their way out of a paper bag. But there are many effective communicators (at least with moderns) who will need to retool in order to communicate with postmoderns.