If that helps you sleep at night. Although, I will expect you to not challenge nor disallow citations from Roman Catholics who expound on their personal opinions of things Catholic and are called "Catholic authorities". Are you comfortable with that?
“If that helps you sleep at night. Although, I will expect you to not challenge nor disallow citations from Roman Catholics who expound on their personal opinions of things Catholic and are called “Catholic authorities”. Are you comfortable with that?”
Since Protestants (scholars, clergy, laypeople) in his own day recognized Cram as I described him, you would have to choose people who are comparable. I have no reason to believe you are either capable of doing so or motivated to do so.
Cram also was recognized by his fellow Protestants to be orthodox - as much as that can be recognized in a general way since sectarianism is such an inherent fault of the Protestant world. Any Catholic you would call an authority should be likewise recognized as orthodox by the Catholic Church. I have little reason to believe you are interested in relying on such a person.