Politics. He keeps stepping in it.
Who gets to clean the poop off his red slippers?
This was a “lose, lose” for him even among people who really like this pope.
My wife, Italian, says he seems to make these wacky things when he’s at high altitude in an airplane, and the Italians wonder whether it’s the cabin pressure that makes him this way.
For me, a Catholic, I’m struck by his overwhelming vanity.
He’s given me goose bumps since Beneduct left—and not in a good way. That silly Stanley a Laurel smile does not make it to his eyes. Did you see how his beatific expression changed when jostled by the crowd? Reminded me of the Bilbo at Rivendell, when he saw the ring on Frodo-