re: I sometimes wonder where conservative Catholics (such as those on FR who are so insistent that the problem does not exist outside “liberal dioceses”) go to church. The Twilight Zone, perhaps?
They go to a less radical church, it’s still liberal, but they don’t think so, because they compare it to the more radical liberals. From the view of Catholic traditon/antiquity, Catholic reality, they are both liberals. You are 100% on!