I am not the fanatic.

A fanatic would go somewhere and call adherents to a faith “fanatics”, carp at their beliefs, make statements that reveal both antagonism and ignorance of them and their practices, and otherwise keep kicking them in the shins.

Do you know anyone who does that?

Of course I appeal to authority. Christ founded a Church, He commanded it to teach, He told it He would give it the Holy Spirit to guard in truth, and gave it the Power of the Keys. Why else would I belong to it?

Your assessment of “the the Vatican and its satellites” simply illustrates your inability to separate the Church from some of its members. Would you like to hear about the Anglican Communion?

I don’t wish all criticism of the Church to cease. There is constructive criticism and there is what you do.

You are free to do it. And I am free to counter it.