A famous bishop was once challenged by a (non-Catholic) woman to explain how he could subscribe to a church whose history had so much wickedness, not least by popes and bishops. He said, “Yes, she’s a whore, all right, but she’s our mother.”
I tried to work up some sympathy for this guy, obviously a liberal, who has been most likely poorly catechized, and is excessively sentimental on political questions, and now all of a sudden is flummoxed by a pastor who believes in primacy of an objective truth and the necessity of Church authorities to authentically respond to it. but his last quote is disgusting. Why would he belong to such a Church if that is his judgment or even if he wishes to publish as someone else’s? He embarasses himself.
Maybe the “famous bishop” was Hunthausen or Mahoney.