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Thank you, Matthew, for this good analysis. Balancing relationship and bureaucracy, the subjective and the objective, will be the very difficult if there are no changes to the institution. Right now there are no channels of communication between all those levels of bureaucracy you delineate. I email my archbishop and he chooses to respond or not. The parish priest declined to meet with me, saying he didn't think we had anything useful in common. The parish members are reluctant to "get into" anything that might be conflictual, and even if we did reach understanding on a question, we'd have no way to communicate it through parish networks or to the Archbishop. The USCCB is not open to communication. Praying is not going to help with this institutional problem. Here I am talking to a guy with a podcast!!! Can you help? Paula

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