RaveWeekly Standard\"Regular readers of his New York Times column will not be surprised to learn that Douthat has written the most balanced and least polemical of the recent critiques of this pontificate ... To his credit, Douthat is willing to entertain the idea that he is simply wrong and that others—Pope Francis and his advisers—are right ... Douthat, for his part, has succeeded in helping make at least a little sense of that mess, in ways that are both disconcerting and, taking a long enough view, reassuring. His readers will be grateful.\