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"I would think most NCR writers would be asking for clarity" = is a faulty assumption that most others are unclear about AL. Not so. The NCR writers, as well as those who comment on those essays and reports, are quite explicitly clear, having read AL in its entirety or at least condensed versions of it. It is unfortunate that you perhaps are unclear about that.

"We had two Popes who enjoyed teaching and clarifying Church doctrine" - an understatement if there ever was one about the papacy of St. John Paul II and then Benedict XVI Emeritus. They were both over-controlling, doctrinally rigid, and put the interests of the institutional clericalist church above it's members who were not ordained. They loved the Church, to be sure, but so did St. John XXIII and so does Pope Francis, but those two unlike the other two love the people of the Church - the Children of God, male and female equally - first and foremost. They understand/stood that the Church exists for all of us.