Sorry, but trying to put the 'same size shoe' on everybody's foot, doesn't work today.  Unity does not mean 'uniformity'.  All the Catholics in the world DO NOT have to have the same rules.  That is why REGIONAL synods are important.  


The Sense of the Faithful--certainly WAS mandated to occur after Vatican II.  But we had two popes who were trying to go back to the church of their youth----and both JP II and Benedict were more comfortable with a dictatorial church than a church that deals with the church in the world TODAY.

You don't know church history AT ALL.