While it’s true that this document has zero magisterial importance at this point, it is likewise true that it has huge importance with regard to public perception (which itself is of significant importance) and assessing the “signs of the times.”
The battle lines are being drawn even as we speak. The time is quickly approaching when all Catholics will have to choose sides and publicly declare whether their allegiance is to Christ, or to common public opinion.
Friendships and family ties will be severely strained, perhaps to the breaking point. Pray and then pray some more for wisdom, courage, strength, and above all, charity. Then make your choice and prepare for the long battle ahead.
It's both simple and difficult, I choose to follow the Lord Jesus Christ. Family, friends, jobs, "leaders" and all others are only servants to the one true Lord and Savior. He knows what is in our hearts. Just as we can lie to everyone but ourselves as to our motives and actions. I don't hate homosexuals, but I hate their recruiting of boys in our parish by homosexual predators dressed as priests. I'm sure there is a special place in hell for those that aided and abetted these crimes. The divorce issue is tough but with reconciliation and prayer even that issue can be dealt with.
I'm not an expert, far from it. I am only good at sinning and trying to find my way back to the Lord. But I still have issues with the church on several things I realize that I don't have a problem with the church, but with men running certain aspects of the church. So I must try to just do what I can to muddle through.
The mass to me has become on long musical with everything being sung including the Lord's prayer. At some services I'm surprised I'm not asked to dance like a monkey instead of just listening to a nice homily after 2 readings and some simple prayers. It's like a casting call for the Holy version of "Glee".
I'm a fallen Catholic that has just returned to the church and know that my time on earth is short. I want to be one with the Lord and will jump through the hoops I suppose but if I pass and have a funeral mass, I'd like to have a simple service not a Broadway musical.