Hi, Jim.  I'd like to offer a somewhat different view of things for consideration.  We are in a transitional stage at present:  +Francis has been appointing pastoral bishops (and nuncios who know exactly what the pope wants) from the time of his election.  But the process is slow and can only progress when openings occur.  We are now at the point where the tide is turning, away from the rigid dogmatist of JP2 and B16 to the pastoral bishops who identify first with the Gospels and not a primary allegiance to a rigid papal authority.  I am impressed with the picture above, with 20 of 21 new bishops in the US alone!  The USCCB can never be the same do-nothing, stone-faced gathering we have grown terribly weary of over far-too-many years.  The College of Cardinals is likewise changing significantly so we should have little worry that we will have a regression in the next papacy.  Times are changing, and the good news is that it is in the direction that Vatican II pointed us in, until JP2.