The problem for the church today remains what it's always been: is the institutional church needed for one to follow Jesus?  Community is important as a means to support each other, but is it necessary for somebody we don't know to fly in from out of town and define what our community must be?  How much of what we see in the  institutional church has been set up to support our individual efforts to follow Jesus, versus to support and sustain an almost cultic caste of men?

We can ask these kinds of questions rhetorically, but we can also ask them sincerely, and search for answers n our hearts.

The institutional church is in trouble.  Because the bishops have convinced themselves that they cannot change an inferred negative they see in the life of Jesus, they now must face a reality wherein they could find themselves thinking Jesus either erred, OR that he will send some kind of deux ex machina  to fix the problem.  That can't be comfortable for them...