text: Tiresome - the usual attempt to get in a jab; score points, etc.  Obviously, you need to re-read the opinion piece.  MSW spends a number of paragraphs on cradle Catholics and criticizing church/pope - did you just skip over that in your haste to post more negativity - negativity that has no content, suggested alternatives, criticism based upon objective facts, etc.
  
  From the post quoting MSW:
  
  "At no time have I suggested that hubris about the faith is limited to recent converts. Quite the contrary. George Weigel's famous "red pen, gold pen" hermeneutic regarding Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical Caritas in Veritate evidenced a "more Catholic than the pope" stance. My article at the time in America magazine was entitled "New Heights of Hubris from George Weigel."
  
  Nor is hubris confined to the ecclesial right. The most recent issue of NCR contained an editorial that included these remarkable sentences....."