text: Thomas Reese's priorities appear to be a popularist, social and secular agenda, rather than leading souls to salvation. 
  
  The priorities of the bishops do not entail "preaching complicated doctrines". What's not "pastoral" and what's "condemnatory" about them? Or complicated? What's "harsh and divisive" about these priorities? Above all else, it is the duty of bishops to protect the human soul from the degeneracy of our age. 
  
  And, just to remind the author, it is the bishops of the world, in unity with the pope, that constitute the ordinary and universal magisterium - not the pope alone. There is no "Francis program" for them to "get with". There is the Catholic deposit of faith for them to apply to local circumstances.