This article is critical of the attitude of the Coptic Orthodox Church and Pope Shenouda III regarding various issues.

"Until ten years ago, the church was stable and able to create equilibrium in the arena of events, whether these were between the Church and the state or between Christians and Muslims....It is now incapable of confronting its crises and issues, although the seclusion tactic to which his Holiness the Pope resorts during every crisis covers up that shortcoming--the failure to manage church crises," Salāh writes.

He cites the church'sn alleged "total inability" to handle the crises involving Wafā’ Constantine, Kāmīliyā Shihātah, and the al-‘Umrāniyyah church construction.

Salāh continues, "The church's reaction was to denounce and protest, with his Holiness rushing to ascend the mountain by the monastery, going into seclusion or isolation...leaving the arena to fill with rumors and the fires of Fitnah Tā’ifīyah."

The author also criticizes the church's refusal to engage with the so-called "parallel pope," Max Michel Hannā (Maximus I), and its failure to enter into discussions over its problems with Coptic secularists, "without being aware that it is squandering the great efforts of those who love it."