May I then suggest the Vatican hire a new interpretor?
Who were they using? The same guy who did the sign language at Mandela’s funeral?
I think it's worse than Mandela's one-man-band arm-waving interpreter. I think it's the "hive" --- the one Joe Sobran used to talk about. It's the the swarm of bien-pensant bees that waggle their little rear ends up or down or diagonally or in figure-8's, and within minutes the whole hive knows whether today's theme is "Republican War on Women" or "Science Says Global Warming Gonna Gitcha" or "We Wuv Pope Fwancis Cuz He's Pwogwessive Like Us."
And don't be calling it a "Conspiracy Theory," because they don't even have to "conspire". They just have to tune into the story line for 5 seconds, and the Narrative has been set: Pope Francis warm, Pope Benedict Cold. Pope Francis' black shows, Pope Benedict's Red Shoes. Pope Francis hates Capitalism, Pope Benedict is one of the Koch Brothers, or at least a Cold-as-Capitalist Cousin.
These are the people who simultaneously, around the world, decide which 15 words out of every 55,000 word papal document will be deemed newsworthy, and will be cropped and framed and put in the headline, the captions, and the lede.
Do you know what I mean?