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Austen Ivereigh is also British and is reporting at the Crux. Crux is a subsidiary of the Boston Globe, also a “progressive” publication, which was set up to cover “Catholic” news.

It has more or less followed the Tablet’s narrative, e.g.:

“Far from being an autocratic intervention in the affairs of a 'sovereign' state, the pope's decision to appoint a delegate to govern the Order of Malta following the resignation of its Grand Master reflects his duty of care to a Catholic organization in need of serious reform. Despite attempts to portray Francis as an autocrat, he's doing no more than what popes have always done for Catholic groups in similar circumstances.”

In other words, the same things that St John Paul II and Benedict XVI did that were reprehensible autocratic abuses are now the beneficent application of papal love to accomplish needed reforms.