It would be wonderful -- wouldn't it? -- if the clergy, especially bishops, could shift to listening/learning mode.  In the process of composing their social justice pastoral letters in the early and mid 1980s, the American bishops devised a process for listening to persons who knew more than they did or who knew things they didn't know or who (gasp!) disagreed with them.  It was this listening process (not the content of the letters) that drew the ire of Pope John Paul. Bishops listening?  Bishops learning? Unthinkable!