We’ve had bad popes before. They’re dead; the Church lives.
The media report every transgression by a cleric as the core of the Church’s teaching.
Yes, the current pope is favoring everything that damages the Church and scandalizes the faithful, but the media report it as the very nature of Christianity and the Catholic Church.
It ain’t. It is heresy and blasphemy, not the teachings of the Church.
And how did the NYT article in question do that?