On the basis of my informed conscience, I am a ‘conscientious objector’ to a few Church policies – just as I am conscientious objector to the structural sins of the society in which live because, being part of a structurally unjust society makes one complicit in that structural injustice.  That’s why I have dedicated the last 40 year of my live to pursuing social justice, and the last 10 within the context of living in voluntary simplicity and poverty.  It is the duty of a Catholic to follow the dictates of his or her informed conscience wherever it leads, even when, as St. John Paul II noted, the dictates of conscience conflict with Church teaching. 

When the Church falls into error, the Holy Spirit moves among the faithful and corrects the error.  The Holy Spirit is even now moving among the faithful and making change.  What would the Church be if it recognised an error and refused to correct it?  As Jesus noted, people born of the Spirit from above are like the wind …