Thank you for your thoughts AFT and all your contributions to this report; you certainly drilled  deep into your awareness & knowledge and I agree fully with you.. If I may just add; that at this stage of my life; I can say with certainty that people allow themselves to be led by giving authority to their leaders. Equally they can withdraw that authority if they see fit. The mistake with the hierarchy is that they think they a have a God given right to authority and do not realise that a very large number of Catholics have withdrawn their authority to be led by them. I do not think they are aware
Somewhere recently I came across a little story attributed to Mahatma Gandhi; where he excused himself from present company; explaining that he needed to join his people in protest, as he was their leader. As you have inferred in different ways; the faithful are the body of the church. Perhaps the hierarchy may see fit to join with us. If not they may become irrelevant and will be left behind