Part 3

IMHO, Richard Gaillardetz has perfectly understood this long term strategy of Francis. If he can establish the principle of collegiality in practice, (1) by establishing the collegial right of all bishops to speak their minds freely, and (2) by decentralizing real authority to regional collegial synods, as he has now done with liturgy, then Francis will have left us with a much deeper reform that all the stuff we yearn for. 

If Francis lives long enough to give us a majority of pastoral bishops replacing our current majority of super-Orthodox light weights, then the reforms we yearn for, may well follow VERY QUICKLY for our grandchildren. 

You and I will have to cheer from the other side, but rejoice we shall. Guaranteed, for the Holy Spirit can only be resisted for so long. She always wins, sadly often only in the long term.