By Charlotte Allen, The Catholic Thing - I feel some sort of ecumenical obligation to say something nice about Martin Luther... The trouble is: it’s hard to think of anything. You don’t have to subscribe to Young Man Luther-style armchair Freudianism to conclude that Luther was a mess. He was arrogant, self-absorbed, self-dramatizing – and thought the world revolved around him personally because he was smarter than and spiritually superior to everyone else.