The Pontificator comments on Rob Dreher in When a Catholic leaves the Catholic Church and says the following:

In light of Dreher’s departure from the Catholic Church, I only have only one question: Was he in fact a Catholic?

…and

I regret that he has left the Catholic Church, and I grieve the sins of the Church that led him to renounce the divine authority of the Vicar of Christ. I pray that I may never be so tested.

So it appears that Catholicism is solely defined by ones’ belief in “the divine authority of the Vicar of Christ” i.e., the Pope, and of course holding up John Henry Newman as an icon of all that is good and holy.

I guess that Fr. Stephen Freeman of Pontifications fame is in grave error, un-catholic, or at best misguided.