As always, Pope Francis raises his voice in concern for the faith and spiritual health of his fellow Catholics in particular and fellow Christians and all people of good will worldwide.  Spadaro and Figueroa make this very clear: Americhristianity (John Pavlovitz) is the very opposite of, and in fact the grave threat to, Christianity as such.  The reactions denigrating and opposing this warning against the insidious "ecumenism of hate", which I call ecumenism of "fearhate", are already numerous (including the guest comment on John Allen's blog Crux - what happened to John Allen btw? Can anyone tell? He has drifted remarkably away from his positions here at NCR since he left for the Boston Globe.).  These responses reveal the fact that Spadaro and Figueroa, and Pope Francis, put the finger on the uncomfortable present reality. Francis has plenty of reasons to express Grave Concern (cq Pius XI's encyclical with the same words in the title, from 1937, directed at Germany in German).