text: Your last 3 paragraphs add to a dialogue. 
  "Conservative" is not the same as extreme. Nor liberal.
  Extremists co-opted the term conservative.
  We should reject binary either/or and embrace both/and.
  Grey is larger than black and white.
  A point of the La Civilta article, no?
  
  "Tentative leadership" is taking a stand.  Is this article birthing a new form of leadership?  Significant the authors of La Civilta are Protestant and Catholic , bringing to the table 2 dominant players in Christian divergence.
  The RCC is the singular majority Christian group and invited the Protestant pastor to the table to write this watershed article.
  
  Currently, Republicans are talking about Democrats being at the table for the reform of healthcare.  Republicans are the majority; they have yet to invite the Democrats to the table. 
  
  In the issue of extreme religious interpretation the Vatican has invited Protestant equality to discern conflict.
  
  Affirm: each need to clean their own house! Dems and Reps, too!