Column by Charles Meredith on the National Catholic Church of American (NCCA) includes comments by Father Dan Gambet, OSFS, retired president of DeSales.  Meredith wonders if the NCCA could be a threat to the Roman Catholic Church in American and Europe. Father Gambet addressed the possibility of membership erosion and said that they [NCCA] are not prominent at this point. According to Father Gambet, the NCCA is outside church law and is a small independent religious group that claims to be faithful to Catholic tradition but is not. "The difference [between NCCA and Roman Catholicism] is that women can be priests, anyone can have communion, priests don't have to be celibate, there's room for single-sex marriage and most important, they [NCCA] don't recognize the authority of the pope."