text: ATF, I was inaccurate. Ratzinger said this. He changed his tune as he ran CDF, and even more so as pope. Regarding "live under rules", IMHO God gave us intelligence and we need to use it. At the risk of oversimplyfing, the Gospel speaks to us in the setting of what is really going on in our life and calls us to grow and act. The rules tend to protect the good order and prerogatives of the institution and its management. We have to do what we believe the Gospel calls us to do. Today's Story of the Woman at the Well shows Jesus doing this. Francis says the church cannot be "self-referential" and still serve the Gospel. It has to go out and know real life as the folks live it. Management is not doing this now, but questioners are.
  
  Of course all of this is based on a prayer life of some sort that leads us to be open to the Spirit in everything. Again IMHO, the fact that so many are questioning the church system these days shows the Spirit is doing things.