Listen nobody is Catholic bashing - the vatican is not immune from criticism. Since you like to throw a Golda Meir quote - how about throwing a quote in about the Church's role during the holocaust that it only recently apologized for and even then it was a nonspecific apology that were not even close to what could have been said.
The Vatican is a political body as well and just because it gets criticized you have made that into a Catholic-bashing scenario. When the Vatican starts righting its wrongs and throws criticisms equally against everyone including itself, then they can even start to say anything like this.
-Rudey