So DeusExMachina thinks that the firing of some scandalous bloggers has more to do with the realisation by the National Catholic Register that earning a living from a dying gang - what he calls "ZombieChurch" - is a bad business modell.
The English translation of the 2015 synod final report has finally been released, almost 2 months after the synod ended. If I am not mistaken, the English translation of the final report of the 2014 synod also took pretty much just as long to prepare.