text: Ah….John Allen rises again.!!!  i was very involved in the early popular parish bases reactions to the church's seeming return to Pre-Vat 2 politics and prayer.  activity everywhere .  John Allen was everywhere. the Boston Globe….Boston College….NCR etc.  he seemed to be the elected or self elected press standard bearer for …..what?  not sure?   i welcomed his nation wide audience.  but i always believed that he was 'embedded' with the catholic status quo and the comforts of the Vatican state.  he was not going to go out on a limb about anything- especially when the institutional church was struggling with Benedict.  did he 'leave' the Boston Globe?  more complicated than that; did he leave NCR???  Allen is one of those reporters..writers whom i never read.  too predictable…protective.  CRUX is more influenced by the Nat Cat Register than it ever was by the Globe..BC…NCReporter.