You are right. In looking at this today after having been to church for a change,  I re-read the article and think it possible one might wonder what I was complaining about? 
   One can't "do" church and openly criticize the Popes. I understand that is the way it is. 
   I heard a Jewish journalist on NPR this afternoon talking about Israel and the settlement issue, etc. and she was very candid, wishing to be faithful to integrity in reporting as a journalist. 
   I thought of the investigation of the nuns, DOMINUS JESUS, JP IIs actions in silencing theologians and revoking teaching licenses, and his abysmal record in confronting the sex abuse crisis and the reminder that the present liturgy is Benedict's personal preference, instead what ICEL prepared. 
   Does commitment to candor and integrity in journalism require an unflinching look at the truth, regardless of the cognitive dissonance such a view might create in the reader? 
   I think it does.