Oh please. I'm a dissident, NCR is one of the few venues that tolerates the views of dissidents, and I found Fr. Reese's suggestion "quixotic" (to borrow from somebody).

Criticisms of the church may illuminate why the church doesn't have the standing to act of conciliator. Or they may not. That's the whole point of having discussion.

I'm quite sure the issue wasn't the defense of orthodoxy.