Great observations by Reese. The reason Pope Francis has ruffled so many feathers is that he dared to state openly that within the context of Catholic canonical tradition there may be circumstances by which the divorced without annulments may be sacramentally reconciled. Priests who have any compassion at all have known for a very long time that there is not a one size fits all solution for those divorced and remarried persons seeking reconciliation. There are solutions known as internal forum solutions which are treated with the greatest confidentiality and discretion. In them the priest and the couple walk a path together by which they take responsibility for the decision to move on with the help of the sacraments. Members of the hierarchy will deny this happens or lament or even condemn the practice, but they know very well it goes on. Now Francis has blown their cover and many of them are upset.