We just wonder how one "dances with the dinosaur" while hitting him with rocks like "intractable Vatican culture," and "the hard-hearted" or statements like "The naysayers will continue to complain and twist in the wind no matter what".  

Isn't this the very subtle attitude that keeps the sometimes vicious Catholic polarization going round and round?

Is it perhaps time to realize that, in the spirit of the 23 other differentiated interpretations of Catholicism in union with the Pope of Rome...
...it might be time let go the hopes of beating each other into left/right submission one to the other
...no matter how kind the left/right insistence of either side to bring the other around to its light.

Following the Second Vatican Council, many Catholics SEE theology, governance, liturgy differently...not a bad thing!  Polarization is part of Church tradition and has only been remedied by allowing "differentiation in order to unite" to paraphrase Jacques Maritain.
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