And as I had answered before, your facts come from a church view that has no hierarchy of importance.  It sees everything as DOCTRINE.  Everything is not doctrine.  Some items are doctrinal teachings.  Some are theological clarifications, and others are spiritual meditations.  The Baroque church saw that hanging onto the past for everything is important.  The church is not immutable.  If it were, it could not correct itself after many scandals in the church: schism between Eastern and Western churches, the Western schism
[2-3 popes at one time], Hundred Years War---one Catholic nation against another [but involved many other Catholic nations as well], selling of indulgences, etc.

There is a fear to let go of past practices and teachings.  We are called to a 'novus habitus mentis"----a new way of thinking, being and acting in PASTORAL APPROACHES.  We need to deal with the people of today with mutual love, respect and commitment to the highest ideals of a disciple of Christ----TODAY.