Jason Horowitz, the Rome bureau chief of The New York Times and a passionate fan of the late Pope Francis (he loved to cast opponents of the late pontiff’s political proclamations into the outer darkness as “archconservatives” or “ultraconservatives”) made Wednesday’s front page off-lead slot with another story to accompany his official obituary for Pope Francis: “As Ears Closed, Pope Amplified Those Unheard Lonely Moral Message in a Changing World.”
While Horowitz admitted in his obituary of Pope Francis that the pontiff stumbled in his attempt to confront sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, back in August 2018 Horowitz penned a hostile story on a Vatican whistleblower, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, who called on Francis to resign for helping to coverup sexual assault, as “an ideologically motivated opposition” member who “weaponized”…
