I'm a critic, not an "enemy." You fanatics cannot distinguish between the two.

<<The Church itself and the people in it are two separate but related things.>>

I'm all too familiar with this distinction and its abuse as a catch-all defense of the church regardless of the issue.

As usual and utterly predictably, your argument boils down to an appeal to authority and a reflexive resort to suspicion and imputing motive. Try to wrap your mind around the fact that Catholics don't go looking for excuses to "impugn the Church." History attests the Vatican and its satellites are as corrupt and ruthless as any other political organization. Alas, the church provides of its own volition more than enough targets of criticism.

You evidently wish for all criticism of the church to cease and for all Catholics to meekly surrender to the authority of the magisterium. Now that is chilling. Fortunately, the days of terrorizing the laity into submission are over.