It's not a fraternity problem. It's a governance problem. Brand exposure is not brand authority — and the same architecture produces the same crisis at Uber, the NCAA, franchise systems, and religious dioceses.
AI engines now answer the question — about the Church, the SBC, halacha, predestination — without the institution writing the answer. Two thousand years of hierarchical authority just got a synthesis layer on top. Institutions that publish like newsrooms keep the citation. The rest get averaged.
Twenty-plus years of charters, commissions, summits, and apostolic journeys. The Catholic Church's institutional response to its abuse crisis is one of the most sustained in modern religious history. The trust deficit persists. Pew, Gallup, PRRI, and CARA explain why.
