So, the bishops declined to talk together about Amoris Laetitia.  We, I don't know that I phrased that quite right, but someone decided that they wouldn't talk about it.

Bishop Christopher Coyne of Burlington, Vt., "chairman of the communications committee of the bishops' conference"  ... "said the topic was not on the agenda of the executive session at the fall meeting."  More, the bishops really do not have a venue for this discussion since presentations at the annual meeting are limited to 15-20 minutes.  More,  and I just love this, quoting Coyne and whoever wrote this story: "There would be a divisive conversation around" the document because in an open forum it would be very difficult to protect the discussion from "those who would want to read it one way and those who would want to read it another way."

Open forum and the expectation is that there would be different opinions expressed and that would be bad.  

These are grown-ups, right?