He might be right but I have trouble buying anything this guy writes, he was one of those eco-nuts who totally bought the AGW scam last I heard. Called himself a “Crunchy Con” or some such hogwash.
I don't know much about Rod Dreher, other than that AFAIK he converted to Catholicism during the Bush administration, and later converted to Russian Orthodoxy because he believed Catholicism was too liberal. See here:
Was I frustrated because the priests wouldn’t preach God’s judgment instead of God’s mercy? By no means. I was frustrated because they wouldn’t preach God’s judgment at all, which is to say, they preached Christ without the Cross. I knew the depths of the sins from which I was being delivered, and it felt wrong to treat His amazing grace like it was a common courtesy....American Catholicism was not pushing back against the hostile age at all. Rather, it had become a pushover. God is love was not a proclamation that liberated us captives from our sin and despair, but rather a bromide and a platitude that allowed us to believe that, and to behave as if, our lust, greed, malice and so forth – sins that I struggled with every day — weren’t to be despised and cast out, but rather shellacked by a river of treacle. I finally broke........There is, of course, no such thing as the perfect church, but in Orthodoxy, which radically resists the moralistic therapeutic deism that characterizes so much American Christianity, I found a soul-healing balance. In my Russian Orthodox country mission parish this past Sunday, the priest preached about love, joy, repentance, and forgiveness – in all its dimensions.
-- from the thread I’m Still Not Going Back to the Catholic Church: Pope Francis only confirms my decision to leave