Believe me (as the Donald is known to say), I let plenty of your comments pass me by... that you did not address either of my questions was not lost on me, either.

I do appreciate, however, that you at least acknowledge that yours is a "diverse viewpoint" within mainstream Catholicism... in light of the many reforms that are currently underfoot, your views might even qualify as dissent.  

Not to worry though, as you know the Holy Father welcomes a "messy church" and dissenting points of view so long as we don't insist on having things our way, when "our" way goes against the tide of the universal church... in other words, let us not stand in the way of progress if progress is the direction in which the Holy Spirit should lead us.