text: What did the journalist expect Francis to say?  He's not going to predict the future.  The current last word is what JPII said.
  
  And Francis is not a top-down Pope.  He's a synodal Pope, one who understands synodality in a broad and inclusive sense that covers all of the People of God.  
  
  As a good pastoral teacher, Francis is not going to play the role of a helicopter parent.  This is an issue whose resolution must bubble up from the grass roots.  That will be particularly challenging for Catholics, who have a long engrained habit of deferring to their pastors.  
  
  Why do you think Francis has been urging the people to "disturbare" their pastors, rather than deferring to them?
  
  Other Christian denominations have already addressed this issue.  In 1975, the Archbishop of Canterbury invited Pope Paul VI to join in such an inquiry, but Paul VI declined.
  
  That doesn't mean the People of God must follow suit and decline.  The fat lady doesn't sing until the people speak.
  
  Francis is waiting.