text: You obviously - and sadly - do not read essays and comments very closely.  What you accuse Pope Francis of is the same as the dissent letter under discussion here, and so the corrections in the essay above apply to you, too.  Let me make it easy for you to understand, if you will cooperate:  Pope Francis has not in any case, changed Church doctrine.  What he has done, as a number of previous popes from time to time over the past 2000 years, is to emphasize the ways out from a state of sin to one of forgiveness in the Light of Christ.  He has pushed the bishops to be the pastoral teachers their office was always intended to be - disciples of Jesus.  So the angst you and other known trads are consumed with here is old, boring, predictable, lacking in real theology, and driven by both a fantasy and preoccupation with a clericalism that saw the death knell sound at Vatican II and move at variable speed ever since.  Let's move on.