SURE it is!!!
After going through a BLENDER!!
A snip here, a tad there and a dollop there and VIOLA!! We gots Mary interceding for sinners!
...After going through a blender...
The reformation (deformation) was the blender. And it came much later.
This is actually an excellent metaphor - Catholic doctrine was came first (1,500 years) and was the ingredient placed in the reformation blender. After such blending mush and error was produced.