Like many Catholic liberals, he feels that the trouble started when the church hierarchy hijacked the devolutionary reforms of the second Vatican council and blocked change or implemented it badly.

像很多天主教自由派一样，霍本神父认为教会上层绑架了第二次梵蒂冈大公会议的放权改革，没有进行变革或者执行得不好，麻烦由此开始。