What a silly argument and set of assertions.
MSW I think really really really wants to be seen as a Catholic thinker vs. someone who is employed by a Catholic newspaper.
He wants "speaker engagements" like Weigel gets around the world.
And so his way to do this is to badger actual Catholic thinkers (how many MSW articles rail against Weigel),
Take a look: https://www.ncronline.org/search/site/winters%20weigel?f[0]=im_field_byline%3A35528
in hopes that some liberal organizations will view him as a "counter Weigel" and invite him to $peaker engagementS