Hi, Monica. I'm not sure how to convince NCR of anything, but I would imagine their argument would be that they are a news organization and not an advocacy group (evidence to the contrary notwithstanding!) I'm guessing they'd feel the need to tie such a forum to some kind of Church document, conference, papal statement, synod -- in other words, something going on in the Catholic world. But who knows?

Sad to say, but my expectation would be that such a forum, if it were offered, would quickly get derailed by the usual suspects. There are very few issues about which people are more entrenched, opinionated and defensive than human sexuality.