You and others also gave a reference to the Christopher Lamb/Christa Pongratz-Tippet piece in The Tablet on this latest event.  This paragraph makes the point well:  

"The President of the knights’ German Association, Erich Lobkowicz, told the National Catholic Register that his had been a 'battle between all that Pope Francis stands for and a tiny clique of ultraconservative frilly old diehards in the Church — diehards that have missed the train in every conceivable respect'."  

The Knights seem to have that same split of liberals and conservatives that is seen among Catholics, Catholic media, Catholic religious, Catholic clergy, and those who comment on articles about the Catholic faith and living as a Catholic.  We  have "untraconservative frilly old diehards"  and ...whatever is the opposite.  Someone more poetic that I will have to come up with that descriptive.