You're free to respect him, I have very little reason to respect a not-so-lowly Priest, in my estimation.
My Priest has suffered quite a bit because he dared to rebuke my Bishop, but he did it the way a man does it and should do it. Leaving himself unassailable, and much respected by his Parishoners because he conducted himself with honor.
If a Priest talked to me like Fr. Heidt, I'd hightail it out of there, if I could, and find another Priest who understood what Honor is really all about.
Yes, he did. He had a problem with Peter's over association with Jewish custom. Read Acts. It's the same situation.
Galatians
Chapter 2
11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.If this is the text you're referring to, I don't it at all as analagous.
12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?