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# Correcting John Allen
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/714/
- Published: 2005-04-20T19:54:11.000Z
- Updated: 2005-04-20T19:54:11.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

Much of the junk out there about Benedict XVI comes from John Allen's bad book, *Cardinal Ratzinger: The Vatican's Enforcer of the Faith*. If you're looking for a polite but firm corrective, we recommend [this piece by David Scott](http://www.davidscottwritings.com/inquisition.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Excerpts:

> As Rome correspondent for the *National Catholic Reporter*, self-styled voice of “progressive” Catholicism, Allen's reporting is usually competent and fair-minded. But this book is neither. Allen comes not to understand and explain Ratzinger but to indict him.

> Most of the book reads like yesterday's left-wing Catholic news, as Allen spends long chapters rehashing Ratzinger's pivotal role in debates dating back to the 1970s over liberation theology, women's ordination, homosexuality and religious pluralism.

> Allen wants us to believe that the German-born Ratzinger came to his current job carrying psycho-biographical baggage from his childhood under the Nazi regime. “Having seen fascism in action, Ratzinger today believes the best antidote to political totalitarianism is ecclesiastical totalitarianism,” Allen writes.