"...this conflict, this difficulty..."
the pretense of us humans, presuming to act in God's Holy Name, to claim to know the mind of God and insist others accept their terms of knowing God, is an arrogance of over-reach that preys on natural vulnerability. A true person of God knows this common personal weakness and speaks with carefulness when speaking in God's Holy Name.
The cultic imperialism of ancient Rome is no credible model for authentic religion. No one person, no group of persons is infallible, no matter how well-intentioned they may be in affirming their pretentious presumption.
True leadership knows that God abides in and with The People who accept with HUMility the limitations and temporality of earth-inherited consciousness. To know God is to know and honor earth-relationships in the Naturalis Sacramentum Ordinis. The map of the world is the map of HUMility - and of the fragility of relationships notwithstanding institutional arrogance and over-reach from times immemorial.