Dear Life of the Lay:

The Holy Father (not fRRANCIS, as you call him) does NOT suggest you should "draw up walls around yourselves."  This article is suggesting something much stronger than that:  it is suggesting that you are WRONG to work towards (much, maybe not all, but much) of the Conservative "Christian" agenda, which the article says is theologically unsound and un-Christian (not all of it, perhaps but enough to disturb these writers).  I know this is harsh; I'm sorry.  But it is the Holy Father's role to tell us when we are off the path: the chaos is only an unfortunate side-effect of this.