The Church will have less success in properly engaging the modern world and fruitfully interacting with the secular order as long as major obstacles present within the Church, itself, where the interactions between the Magisterium, theologians and faithful are clearly suboptimal. 

While it is encouraging that pastoral solutions are being reinstated to their place of primacy over legal approaches, the problems are often more fundamental. For example, too often, pastoral accommodations for objectively "irregular" relationships 
are recommended when, instead, one's primacy of conscience should be recognized and a moral probabilism should be affirmed over against a creeping infallibilism. 

Even Pope Francis' approach, which emphasizes mercy, can become unmercifully condescending to the divorced-remarried, contracepting  & LGBTQ couples, who, not unreasonably, believe that their relationships to God & each other are loving and upright.