When it comes to understanding the Mercy of Christ----I do believe that the young understand better than many hierarchs.  After all, when the Blessed Virgin Mary wants to appear to anyone, she doesn't chose the hard-nosed hierarchy---but those open---mostly youngsters.

Since you don't travel all over the country visiting parishes, you don't KNOW WHAT is being done or not.  So your comment about Amoris Laetitia probably not being read is hardly accurate.  The kids in the high school are not in a parish high school.  They have a team of 5 teachers [all with advanced theology degrees] leading them in their coursework.  And they have no problem with the encyclical.

Paul VI----wasn't reading the signs of the times by issuing Humane Vitae in late July of 1968.  It was ill-advised and ill-timed.  The year 1968 was a year that rocked the world.  Almost every month had an event that shook the social, political, and with Humanae vite, religious ground under the people.