From the article:

If the Catholic community in the United States is to survive as a coherent community, it will require leadership able to imagine new forms and structures to sustain the church in this new reality.

I would suggest that at least one more step is required: any such solution will require the voice of the laity in such decisions about those new forms and structures. That voice needs to include ALL of the laity, male and female, married and single, active and not.   What we are (sad to say) once more talking about here is what truly comprises the church.  I continue to believe that until the ENTIRE church can begin to act, to think and to consult as one, it will remain just as shattered, just as dysfunctional as it is today.  And as it enters a period with as deep of challenges as we already know it will face, it can no longer afford the old "tops down" model.