The choice of the word “Primacy” here is unfortunate, given the way that many people feel when they look at the Church, as she exists in the world today, and see what appears to them as a structure and an identity that are so exclusionary and out-of-touch that it might be comical, were the repercussions not so serious. But there is a reason for that word, which I will try to explain. And I do think that what the Church appears to be, to many people, is not what she essentially is.