"Rome teaches"

"Rome teaches"
Most of the world has lived five centuries since the 16th Century. Some professional anti-Catholics, however, have merely lived the 16th Century five times and are now heading into their sixth century of barren, clueless, pedantic disputations. In the course of this, they have managed to work themselves into a curious state wherein they carefully scrutinize the Catholic tradition for any loopholes they can find, while almost completely missing the forest for the trees. A great deal of this is due to the fact that they continually attribute to "Rome" ideas which are all over the place in the apostolic teaching, including in Churches that have not been in communion with Rome for a thousand years (for instance, the sinlessness of Mary and her Assumption (or Dormition as our Eastern brethren call it)). Working on the bizarre notion that the Catholic Church is a sort of spiritual totalitarian police state where that which is not forbidden is compulsory, all ideas found within that tradition are prefaced with the simple declarative state "Rome teaches", as though the entire Catholic faith consists of a series of bulletins issued by the Pope, which the faithful read, salute smartly, and march out in ranks and rows to proclaim. The notion that there could be broadly believed ideas which the faithful understand in varying ways, talk about, wonder over, and which Rome "teaches" only in the sense that she recognizes as part of the mind of the faithful for many long aeons.... none of that seems to be present to the ardent anti-Catholic. It's all a world of binary dogmas delivered by fiat from the Chair of Peter.

I like this post on Mark Shea's blog read more here: http://markshea.blogspot.com/2009/08/rome-teaches.html
What do you think?