“The Fundamentalist Protestant criticisms you so object to come from the right.”
Hardly. Catholic liberals agree with a lot of the things Fundementalist Protestants think about the practices of the Catholic Church. Here’s some things that right-leaning Protestants and left-leaning Catholics will almost always agree on: Authority of the Pope (don’t like it). Authority of the bishops (don’t like it). The True Presence (it’s not really Jesus). The discipline of Celibacy (isn’t valuable, liberal Catholics HATE this one). Birth Control inside of marriage (who is it hurting?). Divorce and remarriage(it’s not nice but ultimately it is acceptable). Necessity and worth of Confession to a priest.
This doesn’t make Fundementalist liberals, many of the things they agree with Catholic libs on they come to much differently than the Catholic lib, who will also dig things like “gay marriage”, abortion, and priestesses as well as the above, while the right leaning Fundementalist will be against these things (and I thank God they are!).
Freegards
So long as "orthodox Catholics" reject Genesis 1-11 as "mythology" or "didactic allegory," while hypocritcally interpreting John 6 literally, do not mention the "real presence" to me.