Is This Really 'No Better Time' To Be Catholic?

Dissenting from Pope Francis critic Ross Douthat's bold claim

Father James Martin, SJ, and Ross Douthat, in a 2017 exchange

I hadn’t intended to write again before Christmas, but Ross Douthat’s new column responding to the new crisis in his church sparked by Pope Francis’s recklessness enticed me to scribble a reaction. Douthat says:

Francis is yet again widening liberal-conservative divisions without a plan for uni…