+Chaput's pastoral approach flunks Pope Francis' critique of legalism & rigorism. His problems run much deeper, though, as his infallibilism inappropriately extends beyond essential dogma to moral realities, where the sensus laicorum, theologians & magisterium yet continue their search for the sensus fidelium.

While it is encouraging that pastoral solutions are being reinstated to their place of primacy over legal approaches, the problems are often more fundamental. For example, too often, pastoral accommodations for objectively "irregular" relationships
are recommended when, instead, one's primacy of conscience should be recognized and a moral probabilism should be affirmed over against a creeping infallibilism.

Even Pope Francis' approach, which emphasizes mercy, can become unmercifully condescending to the divorced-remarried, contracepting & LGBTQ couples, who, not unreasonably, believe that their relationships to God & each other are loving and upright.