text: "Of course, the work has continued outside of the walls of the Vatican, led by Catholic moral theologians who have spent the past four decades developing new frameworks for sexual morality and ethical decision-making based on our evolving understanding of sexuality. Sadly, those who have made the greatest contributions to deepening our understanding of sexual ethics, such as Fr. Charles Curran and Mercy Sr. Margaret Farley, have been silenced or had their work condemned by bishops and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith."
  
  There. This is the reason why I am not very optimistic about church leaders to open their closed minds and hearts and listen to people's experiences.  A good starter will be to rescind the condemnations of Charles Curran and Margaret Farley.  Another good starter would be to incorporate the tenets of Catholic Social Teaching into the moral theological work.  As Farley rightly proposes: let's talk about JUST sex, and develop a framework that advances it.