text: As  follow-up. I really value your thoughts you share with us here, Don.  It is, indeed, the local community where the greatest expression of the Gospel message is to be found, nurtured and practiced.  And it is, though, right where good theology always leads us and what is the source of much of the recent and current "push" to really decentralize the monstrous edifice that has been built out of power, control, oppression and self-serving traditions for men.  If the Church was indeed more local, as you envision so well, its problems would be few and never on the backs of the innocent.  Many blessings to you.