Ping.
OK, I'm not totally stupid. I've been aware since, say, 2014 that there was blatant sleight-of-hand and fakery going on in the Synods. But it's just today that I remembered that there's a many-decades-old small-group-psychology technique for doing that, called the Delphi Technique, which is what the Francis machine has been following to the letter.
I recommend everybody google keywords
and get up to speed on what's happening here.
I'm kicking myself for not realizing this before.
Lord Jesus, rescue your Bride.
Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens. -J.R.R. Tolkien