The only objective parallel is that Feeney and the four cardinals are Catholic clergy.

But the editorial makes its connection with "put me in mind", which really deals with a different subject than any objective correspondence, rather with a mindset which sees things through a lens of preconceptions.

Were the four cardinals proposing that the Church scrap the indissolubility of marriage, and the Holy Father was Benedict XVI, they would be getting thumbs up all around from that mindset.