"I think he recognized wisely that if he simply came out with changes in teaching from above, it would provoke division in the church, just as Humanae Vitae had done," she said, referring to Pope Paul VI's 1968 encyclical that affirmed the church's opposition to birth control. "He avoided doing that."

Oh, and I suppose the celebrated footnote in Amoris Laetitia hasn't provoked any division with the Church?  Dream on...