Unfortunately, all this is too true. The other very alarming thing - having read the interview in which he says many of these things - is that the Pope is not a very smart man. He thinks he knows everything and is willing to offer a sentimental, statist or even Marxist opinion on everything, from economics to global politics...but he rarely mentions the thing that he is supposed to be doing, which is heading a religion that is fundamentally at odds with statism and relies on individual conversion and individual adherence to the moral law and faith in the revelation of God in His Son, Jesus Christ.
The few times he ventures into religion, of course, he reveals his ignorance and ideology there, as well.
I wish he would be removed from us. He is destroying the Church.
Pope John Paul II -—> this clown.
Ronald Regan -—> that clown.
Rudy Giuliani -—> the big clown.
How did we get from there to here?
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One of the good things about all of this is that it may help exterminate the asinine idea of ultramontanism...that the Pope can do no wrong because he is the Pope.