Advice for Non-Catholic MSM

Hugh Hewitt has some helpful advice to those non-Catholic MSM personalities whose natural impulse is to diminish the Pope for failing to share their views of a more secular world:

Non-Catholics are best advised to keep silent on matters of doctrine within the Church. It is, after all, no more the business of a non-Catholic what the Church commands on the celibacy of its priests than it is a non-Muslim to opine on the proper keeping of Ramadan.

The problem is not that the MSM is advocating an opinion of today's Church, it's that, once again, it only wishes to share one opinion - that from the liberal side. But as Hewitt points out, there are an equal number of opinions who believe the Pope was too liberal.

The most obvious of these conservative dissidents is The Society of Pius X, which carries on the critique of Rome begun by the Society's founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre; but this is hardly the only outpost of conservative criticism of John Paul II. The National Catholic Register is another source for occasional conservative critiques of Vatican policies and enthusiasts for the Latin Mass and the rise of Opus Dei (described in this article from America--a Jesuit magazine) underscore that the Roman Catholic Church generally, and the American branch of it specifically, have vibrant, conservative circles within them--circles to the right of John Paul II.

But, alas, the conservative critique is ignored - at least the MSM is being consistent.