Perhaps you missed the (clear) purpose of this gathering to be a theological examination of AL?  I repeat: a THEOLOGICAL conference.  I think the composition was excellent in that it did what we have almost never seen before: theologians (both male and female) and bishops speaking and working together and listening and respecting one another.  It is disheartening at times to read comments like this one, monica, that imposes an agenda that didn't exist and then criticize it for what it was never intended to be.  I would be far more interested in hearing your thoughts based on what the conference really did, based on its stated purpose.