Catholics should take a leaf out of the Order's Order's books and demand that bishops face an annual election.
At least the Prod-only Loyal Orders have some form of democracy for rank and file members as lodge officers have to be elected or re-elected by the brethren and sisters.
Had the Irish Bishops faced annual polls from grassroots Catholics, then the pope would not have been forced to summon these unelected clerics to Rome for the mother of all dressing downs by the Vatican over child abuse cover-ups.
Simply allowing priests, nuns and members of Holy Orders to marry will not resolve the abuse scandals. More radical action is needed by the Catholic Church hierarchy.
Irish Catholicism needs something similar to the Orange tradition by having annual elections.
Even the North's largest Protestant denomination, the Irish Presbyterians, ensure their moderators of the General Assembly, Synods and Presbyteries face annual votes.
If the Catholic Church is to have a relevant long-term future in Ireland, it must give more power to the parishioners in the pews.
There is a hypocrisy in the Catholic Church where for a generation it championed the cause of nationalist civil rights under the banner of one man, one vote, yet that same Church refuses to allow lay Catholics to vote on which bishops and archbishops they want.
Also, why are so many Catholics surprised at the recent survey on the Orange Order that concluded that the majority of Orangemen were of the opinion that many Catholics supported the IRA.
What else is the Order to think when it sees tens of thousands of Catholics abandon the moderate SDLP in favour of Sinn Féin, the Provo apologists?
Meanwhile, First Minister Robbo's attempt to banish his political past with the red bereted Ulster Resistance paramilitary group by deciding that Unionism needs more Catholics is not what it looks.
It's no 'hands across the border' stunt in a bid to prove his Democratic Unionists really love nationalist rebels.
It is merely a cynical survival ploy by the DUP that follows an alarming rise in the number of so-called Garden Centre Prods – those Unionist voters who on polling days stay at home and water the Orange lilies rather than go to the voting booths.
Sinn Féin has succeeded with the 1981 hunger strikes where Unionism failed after the '74 Ulster Workers' Council strike.
In the 30 years since those hunger strikes, the Shinners have both mobilised and maintained support for the ballot box among Catholics.
In the same period, the Unionist parties have spent so much time gutting one another, the momentum gained in 1974 has long since gone.
But the election-battered Ulster Unionists are undoubtedly the most desperate of all. They dispatched deputy boss Wee Johnnie McCallister to a Shinner shindig in Newry to tell republicans that Unionists had "hard and painful" questions to ask themselves about the past.
This grovelling surrender rhetoric from such a senior UUP MLA is either Wee Johnnie ensuring he gets Shinner transfers to keep his Assembly seat, or all the gossip about a network of secret meeting to lure the UUP into the Tories is true.
I joined the North Antrim Young Unionists when Wee Johnnie was just out of his nappies. As a life-long, radical Right-wing Unionist Presbyterian, I certainly dismiss Wee Johnnie's crap that in the North's history, Unionism "fell short".
Devout republicans do not see the IRA as falling short. They continually honour the part played by their volunteers, living or dead.
Memo to my party deputy leader – Clear off back to farming. We want a leadership that will build a Protestant party for a Protestant people and more importantly, get Protestants voting again. Are you listening, too, Robbo?
