But if one is living in opposition to the faith, then they have been formed their lives around being contrarians. At what point can you differentiate between a reformer and an outright protestant? 

What is the key difference between him and an old catholict in regards to heterodoxy. Where is the line between theologoumenon, heterodoxy and heresy if all we go by is our own personal conscience.  

Not to mention that it makes a laughing stock of the church councils that defined the faith against many of Flannery's beliefs, which are not new in Christian history. Are their efforts not put to shame? 

I agree it is not a normal organisation, which makes it worse. Catholicism is a creedal and dogmatic faith, and has been at least since the first council of Jerusalem. We are to kill our own ego for Christ and mould ourselves in his image, to sacrifice ourselves in obedience to the will of God. The very meaning of the word catholic is universal faith, yet this does not match his beliefs.