text: As you would write off the entire USCCB, can you please explain exactly what failure(s) you're speaking of. That's harsh language if all you mean is a quiet disregard for two of the most controversial, arguably activist exhortations/encyclicals written in recent history, let alone by the same pope within a matter of years. Does whether AL contains doctrinal errors not concern you? Does the fact that LS attempts to definitively rule on unsettled science, a matter that is outside the pope's 'jurisdiction', not concern you? I'm all for valid and civil criticism where necessary, and have had some supply for Francis, but at least substantiate what you're saying before you denounce the entire USCCB.
  
  And regarding the 'outflow': Catholicism is only intriguing, a light calling people home, when it is difficult and authentic. The world has no use for a worldly church; it has an infinite of such equivalents.