text: Now, Pandora, is it possible for you and the rest of us to integrate what Pope Francis HAS said and shown us since the very hour of his election about Church teaching?  What you have been presenting is as polarized as those you so sternly respond to, and it seems to me that you need to be dragged back to the middle as much as you admonish.  What I think the "middle" involves is identifying and then putting into pastoral action what is at the essence of a teaching, the innate spiritual and inspired practice of the Faith.  To read it only "dogmatically" is the source of rigidity and frankly, a dragging the rule away from being Christian at all.  So, what I argue for here is that discernment of the intent of a teaching, and exploring that together, is what Jesus would have us do.  Many, many times you present it as a civil law that carries a penalty of imprisonment.  That is not at all what Christ had in mind, then or now.