text: There is a track record here at NCR....when someone among us has said exactly (often literally exactly) what Francis has said, the calls for "Why don't you just leave?" or "Sounds like a good Protestant to me" or "This is a horrible misinterpretation of Vatican II," or "St. John Paul the Great would never accept this" or  "This is the secular mind at work," or...well, you get my point. Yes, the papal pendulum swings and, yes, it will swing back. But have we not learned that it's OK to have differences, to debate and disagree, to value the other, to accept and honor ambiguity, to change our thinking, to toss a shoe at the EWTN screen or argue back to an NCR blog, to see modernity as a gift not a curse, to quit looking for Catholic enemies among us,  to say about Humanae Vitae what others say about Francis's exhortations (and vice versa), to value nuance, to be careful about using the word "sin" as a weapon, to finally admit the wisdom of women has been too-often neglected....