ATF, what really concerns me is the idea that obedience to church dicta is more important than following the Gospel, or that church dicta are the exact and only words of God, or that this is how Jesus would treat people if he knew them as folks who share this viewpoint know them. It seems for some of this viewpoint the church is more important than God. IMNSHO, the USCCB as a group is a Francis-free area, as might be clear from the agenda for the upcoming bishops conference. Fortunately there are some pastoral bishops doing good things and who are largely unknown outside their own dioceses.