Synod backtrack not becoming of Church

Well, what a firestorm that turned out to be. A few lines of gentleness regarding gay men and women leading to outrage among the Catholic right; Church leaders from countries where homosexuality is illegal passing comment on how Christians should deal with homosexuality; and then a very public back-tracking on what was seen by the majority of people as essentially a very moderate, gentle and essentially Christ-like move into the world of dialogue and openness. 

I suppose I am meant to write that this was the Catholic Church at its collegial best and that people listened to each other and to God. But that would be untrue. The recent extraordinary Synod of Bishops was not well managed or structured and its preliminary report was handled poorly and clumsily. 

We were told originally that the faithful were to be asked their opinion of matters of family and sexuality. Really? I have yet to meet anyone who was consulted. Then the reports were supposed to be confidential but some were leaked. Then they were pretty much forgotten or ignored.