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HBO is so “brave” and “edgy!”
Wow, attacking Catholics! That’s NEVER been done before!

I can’t wait to see their miniseries mocking Mohammed and Moslems.

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The old adage, "you can't tell a book by its cover" applies here. How can you judge the show without even watching it before deciding that it is "really disturbing"? I hesitate to make the comparison, but that is what the liberals are doing now to Trump. They hate him before he's even started his job.

First, let me say I am not Catholic but I did attend a Catholic school in San Antonio when I was just starting my education in kindergarten. It was a scary place for a little Methodist boy. The nuns were like tyrants.

But I have watched the first four episodes of this series. Just happened upon it flipping around the channels one evening for something interesting and different to watch. I don't know how it will play out in the rest of the series, but the ones I watched were entertaining.

My impression of this "young Pope" in the series, is that he is unlike any Pope the church has ever had. He doesn't do what everyone expects. He doesn't follow precedent but goes against the grain. He shakes things up in the Vatican. He creates his own path through an otherwise staid and never-changing church bureaucracy. He gets rid of longstanding policies and habits of the Vatican. He speaks his mind.

He reminds me of another character playing out in American politics right now, one Donald J. Trump, our new president.