Agree 100%. Who people are often times has very little to do with who God is.
Always. God IS, is is is is is. People wouldn’t be at all without God BEING always. “In Him we live and move and have our being.” “In Him all things hold together.”
I can respect a contention that the Catholic Church in its authoritative statements is just wrong about this or that. However, the Church has never said that everyone in the Church is right about everything - only that the Church as an institution teaches the Truth about God. Bishop Whatsis is no more authoritative than the lady in my prayer group who gets all her opinions from network television. Sometimes people are just wrong.