He’s crafty, which is not the same thing as intelligent...and he’s also not very well educated theologically, or any other way, for that matter. Plus he has a really unattractive crude streak and he plays to the crowd. I guess that may be the effect of Argentinian political models.
Our first populist pope.
He is certainly crafty, which is a certain kind of intellegince. The things I find most troubling is I don’t see much in the prudence or wisdom department. Fortunately, it is up to the Holy Spirit to decide when enough is enough rather than me, so I don’t have to think about it too much.