Edit: John Allen will never report the real etiologies, goals and malignant personalities behind the sexual abuse scandal.
BOSTON — The Boston Globe has said it will no longer be running its Catholic news site CruxNow.com as of April 1. Vatican analyst and associate Crux editor John L. Allen Jr. says he hopes to continue the site with other partners.
The announcement comes after less than two years of operation for the Catholic site. The Boston Globe cited financial reasons for the decision. It said that Allen is “exploring the possibility of continuing it in some modified form, absent any contribution from the Globe.”
Allen, a longtime Vatican reporter who is widely respected in his field, told CNA that he and Crux Vatican correspondent Ines San Martin will continue the site.
http://m.ncregister.com/daily-news/the-boston-globe-cuts-ties-with-crux-catholic-news-site/#.VuVGSlI8LKD
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Show's over folks. It probably piggy-backed on the Francis intrigue from a few years ago but even that is more or less passé at this point. Whether or not advertisers feel it's worth it to keep bankrolling a project: that is the litmus test to watch and gauge success by.
good riddance
John Allen, Jr., covers the Vatican as if it were a Jayhawks men's basketball team. He speaks in cliches and sports metaphors. There's never any depth—just weird, shallow, quippy remarks about some member of the episcopacy who maims, is maimed, or will be maimed. All of this, as John might say, is par for the course. He's pandering to an audience of schizoid Catholics—narcissistic and living in omnipotent fantasy, lacking in education and worldly success— who believe that they, like John, can obtain that view from nowhere. There is no view from nowhere. John privileges his own perspective which, in its creepy, flaccid and facile readings, give solace to Catholics who have split off their own aggression and project that on to anyone who appears different from them.
John Allen, Jr., covers the Vatican as if it were a Jayhawks men's basketball team. He speaks in cliches and sports metaphors. There's never any depth—just weird, shallow, quippy remarks about some member of the episcopacy who maims, is maimed, or will be maimed. All of this, as John might say, is par for the course. He's pandering to an audience of schizoid Catholics—narcissistic and living in omnipotent fantasy, lacking in education and worldly success— who believe that they, like John, can obtain that view from nowhere. There is no view from nowhere. John privileges his own perspective which, in its creepy, flaccid and facile readings, give solace to Catholics who split off their own aggression and project that on to anyone who appears different from them.
Mr. John Allen, Jr., covers the Vatican as if it were a Jayhawks men's basketball team. He speaks in cliches and sports metaphors. There's never any depth in his reporting—just weird, shallow, quippy remarks, strung together in a pressured cadence, about some member of the episcopacy who maims, is maimed, or will be maimed. All of this, as John might say, is "par for the course!" For an insightful take on Mr. Allen's questionable scholarship, read Dr. Terry Eagelton's review of Mr. Allen's book on Opus Dei.
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