Not All Roman Catholics Agree the Woman in Revelation 12 is Mary

Hubert J. Richards a Roman Catholic priest in his book "What the Spirit Says to the Churches" writes what would be a huge blow to Roman Catholic doctrine.  Here's an excerpt from that book and what he says here is a clash with other Roman Catholics who continue to insist that Mary is the woman in Revelation 12:
The vision proper, then, begins with the figure of a woman clothed with the sun and the stars. We think naturally enough of our Lady to whom this description has traditionally been applied. After all, we say, of whom else could John be thinking when he speaks of the mother of the Messiah?  However it is clear from the rest of the chapter that this interpretation will stand only if the verse is isolated: what follows has very little relevance to our Lady.  Nor is it any honor to Mary to apply any and every text to her without thought...
Who then is she?  The source to which John has turned for his imagery throughout this book is the Old Testament.  There, the Woman, the bride of God which brings forth the Messiah is Israel, the true Israel, the chosen people of God.  It is quite certain that this is what is in John's mind when he begins his description with a quotation from Gen. 37:9-10 where the sun and the moon and the twelve stars represent the twelve-fold of Israel.
This Woman will later be contrasted with the Harlot (the collective personality of Rome, opposed to the true Israel) and will be specified at the end of the book, again appearing in the light and splendour for her marriage with the Lamb as the twelve-gated Jerusalem which forms the new Israel.  In fact the number twelve occurs so frequently in the Apocalypse in reference to Israel that it cannot have a different meaning here.  All the early fathers of the church interpreted these verses as about the Israel of God

What is pretty interesting is that despite being a Roman Catholic, however like the bishop Malachy, his very writings however show the very Harlot of Revelation as Rome.  Hmmm... now why would a Roman Catholic priest suddenly interpret the Harlot to be the collective personality of Rome?  Doesn't the Roman Catholic institution consider Rome as the "Holy City".  Before Martin Luther's conversion and his heavy days of spending too much time with prayer to Mary, he called Rome as "Holy Rome".  This is getting pretty interesting indeed especially when Augustine also predicted Rome will be judged by fire.  For one, maybe like Balaam, this guy really has been forced to utter the truth he doesn't want to... in fact Balaam was forced to utter the prophecy of the Star out of Jacob.