text: I share your hope, but I think that writing columns for a blog that is generally dismissed by the bishops is not the best strategy. The bishops will not begin to pay attention until their livelihood is threatened: either by denying them the resources they need to maintain the status quo, or by openly challenging them in the courts, where they would be forced to respond. 
  
  To a second point: I would not be so inclined to assume that Latinos will be the future of the church in this US, especially since, as Winters says, the Latino population is young relative to the general Catholic population. Latinos are experiencing the same tugs at their loyalty all millennials are going through, and there is considerable evidence that they will join the Nones Legion in force as time goes on. In my family, my generation continues to attend Mass, although about half are involved in "irregular" unions, but few of our children have anything to do with church.