That sentence by "16" rationalizing the censure of Hans Kung is so telling. 
It seems that there has been a revival of an ancient "ritual" in the installation of a bishop. I'll try to paraphrase: the newbie arrives at the closed doors of the cathedral; bangs his "crozier" mightily three times and is announced from within: "Bishop so and so has come to take possession of HIS see".  One might ask: from where, by whom, why? Actually is seems to come from a tradition of the cleric arriving at a great newly built church, built by peons, at their expense and he just takes it over as is his right and might. 
And we let him in. And that is merely the "visible" part. 
Reality doesn't change just because some self-serving patriarch invents a new term and dictates....