[ebb tide]

And he talks so off-the-cuff, so colloquially that we always have to be explaining him.

Who's the "we" doing the explaining Francis? How does "we" know "we" are explaining correctly. Fr. Lombardi has been caught in outright lies. Who else is explaining Francis?

When Francis is apparently "misinterpreted", as "we" claim, why doe Francis never make follow-up clarifying statements? He seems to have no concern with people agonizing over what "did the Pope mean by that statement?"

[Mrs. Don-o]

I usually rely on a Hermeneutic of Continuity: both by comparing to what he's said before, and the contexts of his predecessors and the Catechism, to which he himself has pointed out as his guide with the words "I am a son of the Church."

Sometimes you just have to get his whole paragraph. The media --- it can't be denied --- does too much snipping and framing, as Dawn Eden pointed out in this very article we are discussing at the top of this thread.