There are two parallel discussions taking place.

One involves people who have read the document, the footnotes, the dubia, and the various positions taken by prelates and others. They take the topic seriously and are engaged in a serious discussion.  Some, like the author of the article Ms. Zagano, wish to man the barricades against the four cardinals. Others wonder aloud why the Holy Father does not do his job and what Footnote 351 means.

The second discussion is taking place among the folks Shakespeare describes in Julius Caesar: “.... the rabblement hooted and clapped their chapped hands and threw up their sweaty night-caps  ....”.

While they demonstrate over and over they have not read the document, the footnotes, the dubia, and the various positions taken by prelates and others, they do make a great deal of noise telling “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”

Pay them no attention.