text: Michael;
  
  Well said; your essay really hits the core of the issue; it's not anti-Catholic bigotry at all.  Most of the participants in the e-mail discussions were themselves Catholics.  Perhaps even more significantly, on Twitter well respected and credentialed commentators as diverse as Ross Douhat and Massimo Faggioli agree that it's an inter-Catholic dispute.  For Douhat it's a "Catholic civil war" while Faggioli sees it only as a "Catholic family quarrel".