John Allen?--not exactly the anti-Christ but where was the 'hold-your-nose' alert? (benign crankiness)
Why the hostility to John Allen? His reports cover aspects of the Vatican NOBODY ELSE seems to be interested in, and he is not a flaming liberal like so many at NCR.
There is simply no other Catholic paper that provides his perspective.
I read the NCR, regularly. Much of it is goofy stuff, but there are usually two or three articles that are worth reading. Allen's is always among those.