Tradcaths huffing about synods overturning traditional teaching as if “concentration of authority in a priesthood of graduate-educated professionals concentrated enough to nimbly adapt teaching to secular politics and ideas and dispersed enough to adapt that to local congregations” were not the foundational thing about Catholicism (“notable lay writers lead the established middle class to reject these compromises with the secular world and return to foundational understandings” is the thing about Protestantism)