text: Yes, that is a most valuable observation on Fr. Reese's part, that we are all "cafeteria Catholics." And no doubt that has always been true, throughout church history.
  
  Unfortunately, there are those whose understanding of Catholicism, and of their identity as Catholics, can never comprehend the wise and true things that Fr. Reese is saying here about the value of parrhêsia, dissent, and "modeling what it means to be a community," and not a collective of nervous conformists. For those others, it's all about being told clearly and with no uncertainty what we must do, and maintaining a small-minded view of "Christ yesterday, today and forever the same," as in this article by an editor of First Things:
  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/opinion/sunday/catholics-nigeria-traditional-mass.html?_r=0