Original, Explained, and For Beginners? (Comments encouraged)

I'm gonna try to keep this short because it is an interesting issue that I raise more for the purpose of fostering thought in people who read this rather than drawing out my personal opinions to a deep extent.

The teaching body of the Church is one of the luminous gifts we have as Catholics. The Holy Spirit leads the whole Church so that it may serve rightly as Christ's body on earth. The Church produces great quantities of documents with high quality of teaching and enrichment for our faith. However, I perceive a definite disconnect between the primary products of their faithful work and the reception of it by the faithful.

Encyclicals, the Catechism, conciliar documents, and all the rich library of articulated teaching is a source of explanation and support for our faith journey. It is an integral part of the faith along with interpersonal contact, the social community of the Church, the Scriptures, etc. I feel that the richness of these resources--the hard work of our Magisterium and the diligent reflection and prayer their work entails--could be utilized more fully, more often, and more effectively.

I would offer the example of the Theology of the Body as a way that the Church could attempt to make its teaching more accessible. John Paul II gave dozens of eloquent sermons developing a theology on sexuality that helped draw out how to love and live rightly and embrace one's sexuality as a gift from God. Those sermons are intellectual, dense, and complex. West studied them hard and produced a book to explain JP2's "sexual revolution". He composed a 500-page-or-so volume called "Theology of the Body Explained" to offer a simplified, somewhat condensed version of the teaching. West even continued, writing a 125-page-or-so version called "Theology of the Body for Beginners".

How is this a model for Church teaching? West left the primary source unblemished, and through his work, he probably increased the amount of people who were aware of JP2's talks, who referenced them, and who read them. In addition to the original words of the pope, West offered a more vernacular, synthesized version and also an introductory version. He did not change the teaching or analyze it (he does offer some examples and scenarios for illustrative purposes, but he does not skew the teaching). Rather, he provided different ways to access the teaching. The important element is that JP2's original teaching remains intact and is illuminated by the rehashing and brought to the eyes, ears, and hearts of more hungry believers.

What if the Church could adopt something like this? Even if not institutionally, it could begin locally. Perhaps it starts with a concerted effort to create intentional, focused reflection/discussion groups of lay or ordained people under the guidance of a Church official well-versed in the teaching to produce a more vernacular or accessible version of some Church document. Could this work as something the Church adopts with a mechanism for Magisterial oversight and some way to assure the Spirit's guidance, orthodoxy/accuracy, and maybe through that create versions of Church documents at different levels of accessibility and understanding that retain the authority of the original document?