[piusv]

While neo-conservatives, the same who, like Karl Keating, will even go so far as to explain away the aforementioned prayer to St. John the Baptist to “protect Islam,” likely consider this a moment of harmless jocularity on the part of a charming pope, it strikes me as nothing less than a sign of the diabolical.

[SaxxonWoods]

Diabolical?

How silly. He was playing along with the excitement and waiting for the teenagers to calm down enough that he could begin without long outbursts interfering with his speaking.

He had been through this before.