text: The mess Pope Francis is trying to avoid is schism from the authoritarian Catholics inhabiting the conservative traditional wing of the Church.  Had he clarified the issue of the Communion for the divorced and remarried he would have sent this part of the Church into orbit and right out the door.  In the interest of Church unity, he seems to feel confusion is better than clarity.
  
  The truth is Francis isn't going to preserve the Church in the West with confusion about doctrine the majority of laity have already settled for themselves.  He needs to decide if the Church's mission is better served by his version of sowing ambiguity for the sake of the Burke's of the Catholic world, or biting the bullet and moving beyond the authoritarianism and black and white dogma the Burke's of the Church need for their own security.  If Jesus is the example we should follow, the decision is pretty clear.  We move beyond authoritarianism and black and white dogma.