Is is not our belief's we advance, it is our demand for moral teaching based on reason and evidence, not superstition or the peculiar sexuality of asexuals (who are even rarer than gays and lesbians) who assume that God made their sexuality holy rather than nature making it aberrant.

The Church is a democracy.  We elect popes.  Until kings started doing it, we elected bishops and in one parish towns, the bishop was essentially just the pastor.  Indeed, all city churches started that way.

Demanding restoration is not heresy, especially when Francis is looking at it anyway.

The rich man thought he was fine.  He went to synagogue, he gave money, he kept the oral law but he missed the hospitality thing.  Abraham told him that even should someone come back from the dead, they would not listen to him if they did not listen to Moses and the prophets. The risen man is Jesus.

You know him. The one who argued with the Church of his day?