What happened to the Ed (RD) who always supported the Bishops, the one that tried to minimize the sex scandal, the one that believes in the clerical system.  Trump and troublesome figures like Banon  seem to have spit the conservative block wide open.  Ed and Banon support the Bishops only when the Bishops support what Ed and Banon believe for it is Ed and Bannon that are the "real" catholics, these are even more authoritarian minds than the Bishops. They are the Opus Dei!  To be a one of these "real" catholics one has to be authoritarian.  One knows more than the scientists about the climate, more that the doctors and scientists about embryology, more than theologians about theology,  and even more than the Popes at least after Pius XII.  These are the "real" catholics.  Authoritative fact and hypothesis  be dam--d.  So the rest of us are apostates that are going to be dam--d. The gospel according to Ed and Bannon....