text: Continued from above....
  If an appeal to Rome were to be allowed who would hear it, the Rota, the Signatura, the new Dicastery for the Family, the CDF; it by no means clear at all.
  If an appeal was unsuccessful and the bishop who refused Communion was vindicated, would that not answer the 'dubia' posed by the 4 Cardinals and others? 
  All over the world their will be bishops at odds with their Conferences, some in a minority some in a majority. For example there will be a least a few German bishops at odds with their Conference and the Conference has no power or jurisdiction to overrule or discipline them as each bishop is the sole authority under the Pope in his diocese.
  Francis's failure to clarify his Exhortation has ramifications far beyond the ' Communion' issue. The unity of the Catholic Church is being called into question and only the Pope even through the CDF can ultimately resolve this. If Rome speaks the matter is settled.