The great irony in all this is that the only Catholics who really care about authority are traditionalists. This is our weakness. The faith is most vulnerable at the top--which is precisely the means the subversives use to bring the rest of us along towards accepting the new religion. We're forced to hold the line against authority itself, which goes against the grain for most of us.
This is very true. I have found there is a gut reaction (maybe denial) against criticizing even a corrupt priest. The priesthood is something sacred and to be supported, yet the mind has to balance out the gut when the same priests are dismantling the priesthood and Catholicism. The conflict has to be overcome.
At least that is the reaction for me.