Good reporting, Joshua. I wonder how long it will take for theologians to recover from the Ratzinger years and produce inquiries that help Catholics sort out the questions implicit in 21st century life. Most of the Catholics alive today weren't born until well after Vatican II, probably live in Brazil or a neighboring country, and are not obsessed with the questions that occupied their ancestors in faith. 
To stretch a metaphor, we suddenly live in a transgender universe that doesn't conform to our binary expectations. As an example, there's a review in the current issue of Catholic Biblical Quarterly of a book by John Keenan, who occasionally comments here: "The Emptied Christ of Philippians: Mahayana Meditations." It would be helpful if NCR could put us in touch with similar works that explore the margins of faith experience because, in my opinion, the binary categories of traditional Catholic theology are inadequate to the task. All they will yield is dead ends.