Also worth reading:
"The Catholic Church has at most 10 years to adapt," by Mark Patrick Hederman, a monk of Glenstal Abbey, Limerick, Ireland, published in the Irish Times May 16, 2017. 

The article looks at a world that has changed dramatically in the last 100 years and a Church that has lost its influence and power, and doesn't know how live, preach, and move forward in that changed world.  "Discovery of the world of the unconscious; full ...acceptance of the dimension of femininity, both inside and outside ourselves, with all this implies in terms of gender balance and sexual diversity; ...the immensity of scientific discovery; ...ever-expanding technology..."

"We have been slow to appreciate what the Pope's core revolutionary strategy is...a 'synodal church'... " 
"...we cannot have a situation where only priests can exercise power...a clerical oligarchy."
" ...Domination is the hallmark of the patriarchal paradigm.  It should be replaced by a paradigm of partnership."