A gentle rap on the knuckles?

This is full of decorous language, obfuscation, and almost none of the righteous indignation demanded by the people precisely to whom the Holy Father has said the US Bishops must collectively listen. It lacks any decisiveness. In fact, it goes on to call into question, "false, facile and futile forms of triumphalism that would defend spaces rather than initiate processes. It will keep us from turning to reassuring certainties that keep us from approaching and appreciating the extent and implications of what has happened. It will also aid in the search for suitable measures free of false premises or rigid formulations no longer capable of speaking to or stirring the hearts of men and women in our time."

He is using the crisis to promote the empty-headed machinations of liberalism. He discredits those whose response to the crisis is too organizational, yet he also criticizes those who would defend spaces rather than initiate processes. How is initiating processes the opposite of being too organizational? This whole document smarts of internal contradictions, much like his papacy.

Basically, if liberals do it, it's part of a listening church, but when conservatives do it, it's clericalism. I want them ALL to stop behaving like invertebrates, starting at the top. The pope should be eating his own words- if you want the bishops to stop taking sides, then he should stop siding with liberals and start siding with the magisterium. For as he himself says, "Constant reference to universal communion, as also to the magisterium and age-old tradition of the Church, saves believers from absolutizing any one group, historical period or culture within the Church." He should stop absolutizing progressives who are so open-minded, in the name of mercy, their brains have fallen out.

I'm eager to hear other commentators make sense of this letter.
___________________________________________________UPDATE:

Of course the voice of reason comes from Amy Welborn:

Is the culture of church leadership in desperate need of encouragement to be more gently tolerant of all points of view and less critical of each other? Seems to me it’s pretty much the opposite.

Phil Lawler writes, "Where is the evidence of this disunity, which worries Pope Francis so much? The American bishops have not been criticizing each other; far from it. They have been criticizing the Vatican. They have, in fact, been—gently, respectfully, but insistently—criticizing the Pope himself."

He continues, "The papal letter encourages the American bishops to find ways to protect against sexual abuse in the future, but not to look too deeply into how the problem arose in the past: not to investigate the corruption that gave rise to a culture of secrecy and cover-ups, of protecting the guilty at the expense of the innocent. If the same attitude prevails when the Vatican hosts the presidents of the world’s episcopal conferences in February—and we have little reason to expect otherwise—that meeting will result in further frustration, greater cynicism about Church leadership, more damage to the evangelical mission of the Church."