Recently Archbishop Athanasius Schneider and a couple other good guys put out a superb booklet, The Preferential Option for the Family.. Quote: "Just as a body cannot be separated from the soul that informs it, so also pastoral practice cannot be completely separated from the moral doctrine that justifies it. Therefore, a change in the pastoral policy can easily result, at least implicitly, in a change of the implied doctrine."
Robert Cardinal Sarah--- I love this --- "The idea of placing the Magisterium in a beautiful reliquary detaching it from pastoral practice that could evolve according to circumstance, fashions and passions is a form of heresy, a dangerous schizophrenic pathology."
I think there's a very legitimate alarm that Pope-Francis-approved changes is pastoral approach could, in practice, negate doctrine.
Even now, the National Bishops' Conferences in Germany, Austria, and elsewhere are allowing the reception of Holy Communion for people in open, persistent, objectively adulterous unions, and getting no discipline or pushback whatsoever from Pope Francis or anybody else. (Except the African Bishops. And didn't Kasper tell them to butt out?)
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Everything depends on how you define everything, doesn't it? However, my original statement stands unassailed, unless by "changing doctrine" one means not changing doctrine but something else, perhaps "having an influence on implementation," or ... what you will, since the question is, "Who's to be master, words or us?"