text: MSW's and many other armchair commenter's rejection of the grassroots, mostly lay correction of the pope seems very "non-NCR"
  
  grassroots
  lay action
  the challenge to the male dominant hierarchy
  underdog
  "speak truth to power"
  
  right?  Has all the elements of an NCR revolution, minus the colorful protest signs. 
  
  NCR should be all behind this correction, or at least sympathetic, from a power to the people point of view, yes?
  
  Why not?
  
  but instead we get coarse dismissiveness.
  
  "small numbers"
  "old" 
  "out of date"
  "lesser" types 
  or far worse.
  
  What would MSW have said about St Catherine of Siena's approach to the pope?
  
  "peasant"
  "N of 1"
  "uneducated"
  etc.
  
  
  Where's the "open minded dialog" now?  where's the "encounter"
  
  Doesn't anyone want to be "surprised by God"?