Michael, La Civilta' Cattolica is largely read by ecclesiastical buffs and ignored by the great mass of Catholics. 
In the modern world, publishing one's critique in a journal that, generously, is destined for 15,000 readers or less, is not an effective tool. This will generate a minor skirmish among those who read each other's comments and imagine that a billion-plus Catholics care. They don't. And the folks who follow US Catholic religio-political leaders will continue to do so because the medium was not appropriate to the message.
We now live in the twitterverse, God help us, not the Catholic Civilization, and the new gospel mandate is: "tweet early and often."