Right on. I think that when we get frustrated with the pace of change under Francis, we retain an implicit assumption that Francis ought to act as all previous popes since V1--use the universal jurisdiction over all things Catholic granted the papacy by that Council to make things happen.

This interview, better than many other stories in NCR, explains the grounds for the slow pace--Francis adopts the ecclesiology of V2, and according to that ecclesiology it would be wrong for Francis to simply impose what he believes is correct. Above all on matters of doctrine, he will not move forward on his own, and as the two synods on the family made perfectly clear, he can only muster more that 50% but less that 2/3's of episcopal support for even the simplest of reforms. It must have shocked him that the bishops would not agree to a simple exercise of compassion re communion for the remarried Catholics actively practicing their faith.