Let us remember that cynicism is a sin. When we see someone who seems virtuous we had better give them the benefit of the doubt until or unless we find out more about them, and we are not obliged to seek dirt on them without good cause.
It isn't an emphasis. It is simple non-Christianity. We've been worrying that Pope Francis isn't Catholic. The Bear must wonder if he is even Christian.
I'll agree with one of those interviewed that it is disturbing to hear people speak of ad orientem worship as though it might be harmful, or divisive, while nothing could be more Catholic in both the narrow - as in regards the faith - and the wider - as in universal - aspects of the term.