Given that John Allen is a senior correspondent for the dubiously-based National Catholic Register, one might guess along what lines his articles might run. Until you read him. His writings are generally quite fair, and always illuminating. At some point he made an extremely emphatic turn away from things like his awful 2000 book on Cardinal Ratzinger (I am curious as to what led to such a switch). Diane Korzeniewski over at Te Deum laudamus! has some things to say about John Allen’s latest column on the Pope.