This is one of those letters you write, put in a drawer, and then write the letter you can and should send.  To give the letter a name, let alone one that references John Paul II's apostolic letter on clergy formation, is more than a little too much hubris.  When I worked for a bishop in the 1990s he would pass around letters that he received from people that where similar to this one: multiple pages with bolded and underlined phrases.  The people who sent them came across as unhinged.  (Now they just blog.)  Quite frankly, it shocks me someone in the archdiocese didn't see this and question whether this was the best format.  Dolan, who probably didn't write the letter (something else you learn when you work for a bishop), should have heavily edited it.  He really isn't that ignorant. 

Finally, Dolan is a student of history.  He knows that American Catholicism is congregational.  Not just the last 50 years, but from its inception.  This crazy letter won't help the effort to undo it.