That certainly was the practice of Popes JP II and Benedict who censured, disciplined, investigated and/or silenced reputable scholars such as: Hans Kung, Charles Curran, Andre Guidon, Jacques Dupuis, Roger Haight, Jeannine Gramick, Robert Nugent, Leonardo Boff, Jon Sobrino, Marciano Vidal, John McNeill, Todd Salzman, Michael Lawler, Elizabeth Johnson, and Margaret Farley.  


Many of these have been censured or investigated for their views concerning official teachings on sexuality and gender.  The question of AL is what is the extent of bishops'
knowledge of the actual LIFE of the laity.  And what is the bishops understanding that lay Catholics not only CAN MAKE up their own minds when it comes to their lived lives and their faith, but that they MUST make up their own minds. 
 

What Burke and his group propose is not a living tradition, but merely traditionalism's moribund truisms, quaint moralisms, and calcified doctrines.