Recently the Boston Globe announced a new Catholic new site “Crux: Covering all things Catholic”.
After their aquistion last year of John L. Allen Jr. as an Associate Editor this move was no surprise and Allen has continued to turn out columns always interesting to read.
Still I wondered how long until Crux was just another National Catholic Reporter. When he worked for them he was pretty much their only redeeming value. News content is being provided by multiple sources such as the Catholic News Service and the Religion News Service. Not a great fan of either, especially RNS and David Gibson.
Today they ran a column by Margery Eagan which was pretty much full National Catholic Reporter mode. Never go full National Catholic Reporter.
- Reference to inquisition “nunquisition” – check
- Reference to crusades – check
- Reference to crackdown – check
- Dissident nuns are awesome (helping the poor don’t you know) – check
- Brings up sex abuse crisis – check
- Makes you dumber reading it – check
You can write articles such as these from a boilerplate template.
What is so idiotic about these articles is they talk about “alleged” complaints by the Vatican when it is so obvious these charges are exactly right. You could side with their dissent, but you can’t call it orthodoxy. It is such a dishonest complaint. Her complaint that the Vatican criticized them for being too Obama-care friendly isn’t even factually correct.
