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They'll claim that it's just a few "conservatives" or "radical traditionalists" - people who get their jollies from bashing a liberal Pope.

Maximo Beansi, a professor at Villanova University’s Department of Theology and Religious Studies, said the signatories represent a “tiny, extreme fringe of the opposition to Francis”

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“tiny, extreme fringe of the opposition to Francis”.

Aren't these people included in Bergoglio's much beloved "peripheries"?