Well, most of the posters here will not be pleased with me when I challenge their thoughts on this report.  You can rip it apart all you want, but it misses the point, as far as I'm concerned.  Reminds me of the Pharisees who constantly looked to discredit Jesus in the Parables He used, and which they did not even understand.  If one thinks back a little bit, it becomes clear then that Pope Francis uses "family" language to describe the roles within the Church (the caring, nurturing mother, for one) which is culturally consistent with the world he grew up in and came to the Chair of Peter from.  If a group of elderly men - +Francis included, and the emeritus pope down the lane a bit - find a renewed sense of belonging and worth, then I am all for it.  How wonderful that this pope can think enough of this often resistant and oppositional group of, yes, men to bolster their sense of worth.  Is it not what we all say, on numerous occasions, we want?  A pastor with compassion?