text: There is a chasm of difference between: "bringing them back" and "being with them".
  This is something that our hierarchy and we would do well to consider. "Bringing them back" implies a filter. Like the bishops who won't stand firmly against Trump and the Republican health fiasco because they see an abortion alliance, or, splitting hairs about divorced and Eucharist.
  "Being with them" means I love and accept even in disagreeing. The Christ way.
  Like "Sacraments": Why is the "outward sign" held by the institution as a club, a weapon, a barbed fence to keep some out and as a prison to keep the fearful in or to weaponize the haters?  The "outward sign" is defined as the reality? Idolatry? Jesus is not so limited or limiting. 
  The church is allegedly under siege? The real problem is that the church is deceitful in its cowardliness. We are ingrained with it; young people reject it.
  Demanding a voice in the public square? Earn it.