Found Allen's piece to be *fluff* - must have been a slow news month?  So, he came up with an idea about how styles appear to compare and match?  Really, only if this lightweight opinion piece (feels like rewarmed rumors) can stand on the cherry picking that he uses.  This fails to pass any reasonable test for analysis, objective standards, peer review, etc.

Hey, Allen - read any number of biographies/autobiographies of catholic bishops who JPII decided he did not like - they quote JPII"s words, behaviors, and comments.  In fact, an analysis could be made whose thesis is that JPII treated and managed the bishops exactly like the autocratic Communist leaders he learned from in Poland.

Francis has deliberately decided to put episcopal conferences in the forefront - making the Vatican dicasteries be supports for those conferences rather than have the dicasteries run the show.  Note - no mention of the G9, etc. ......just a harebrained comparison that he behaves like Putin?