The backfire is that the cited article had the same agenda as the Nazi Immorality Trials to undermine the moral authority of the Church through false public accusations of priestly impropriety.
If the worm now turns, then perhaps back-bite would have been more appropriate than backfire.
Have you caught wind of this? http://torontocatholicwitness.blogspot.com/2013/04/breaking-news-fr-matthew-despard-will.html and
Priest escapes sanction after bullying claims
SCOTLAND'S longest-serving Catholic bishop has backed down from moves to sanction a serving priest over claims the Church has covered up a culture of sexual bullying.[snip]
...However, amid concerns any action could simply add fuel to the controversial claims of Father Despard and embroil senior figures within the Church, Bishop Devine has abandoned any punitive action.
One senior source said simply: "Devine blinked."
A priest in good standing, writes a book, telling tales. His bishop makes some preliminary moves to schedule hearings, which many take as sign the bishop was trying to silence him fairly permanently, but "blinked". Still, it's understood there was some agreement to silence in the future. BUT the book is still out.
It's not working very well anymore, the intimidation game is failing...with your own objections here, not touching upon details of what is being spoken about, save in "editorial view" where ill motives (and worse) are being assigned to the messengers.
Should I ping Fr. Despard to make him aware that by your own broadly sweeping statements, he too is being compared to nazis (Godwin's law, anyone?) and is himself also "trying to undermine the moral authority" of [the RCC] "through false public presentations of priestly impropriety" by writing of his own experiences?
Product Description
Priesthood in Crisis is a story of one priest’s experience in the priesthood and his efforts to live out his vocation honourably despite his awareness of corruption in parts of the Church that he loves. His refusal to tow any line other than god's line earned him the enmity of many of his fellow priests and members of the hierarchy. Because of this, his priestly life was one of constant stress as he fought to serve his people with faith and the trust. This was often hampered by sinister machinations by those who could not tolerate his integrity. He did not want to write this book but recent revelations about the Church in Scotland meant that he could no longer remain silent. This is his story.
So far, it seems the only continent we haven't heard from concerning these types of things (with RCC priesthood involvement) is Antarctica.