All I have to go on is on is what you post. It does not support the conclusion that you’re familiar with the history, and particularly with the context.

Yes, I am a Catholic and, yes, I am an apologist for it. You’ve self-identified as a critic or an enemy of it. And yet here you are carping at it. It’s rather chilling.

The Church itself and the people in it are two separate but related things. The Church is the communion of saints and subsists in what you’re looking at here. That is, there is a set and a subset. You apparently cannot distinguish them.

Oh, yes you can weigh in on any Catholic issue you like. And I can weigh in and point out your various errors, misimpressions, misassumptions, and underlying adversarial attitude.

So, carp away, I care not.

The criticism that Stein was exploited to burnish the church's public image is simply a reflection of a lack of bona fides to analyze the process, and a reflection of a desire to impugn the Church. Nothing more.