I think John Allen loves the sound of his own voice too much, respectively the image of his rather smug grin on TV screens! (shudder)
His record on Joseph Ratzinger is completely messed up - without any consistency whatsoever - seemingly always according to whatever benefits him most.
Surely the NYT is an irresistible lure for somebody like him. Unquestionably everybody who has half a brain knows what the conditions for the release of that piece were!
What a push-over he is! What he did is simply despicable! Does he even dare to go to confession!
The man gives me the creeps in a BIG way!
In terms of the NYT – don’t know if slipping into tabloid status is going to safe them. I hope NOT!
Teresa: you might want to check out kath.net – it seems that your terminology was adopted by Armin Schwibach of ZENIT!