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To: MurphsLaw; edwinland
From the introduction in the book, The Dictator Pope (2017):

If you speak to the Catholics of Buenos Aires, they will tell you of the miraculous change that has taken over Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Their dour, unsmiling archbishop was turned overnight into the smiling, jolly Pope Francis, the idol of the people with whom he so fully identifies. If you speak to anyone working in the Vatican, they will tell you about the miracle in reverse. When the publicity cameras are off him, Pope Francis turns into a different figure: arrogant, dismissive of people, prodigal of bad language and notorious for furious outbursts of temper which are known to everyone from the cardinals to the chauffeurs.

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After nearly five years of his pontificate, Francis is showing that he is not the democratic, liberal ruler that the cardinals thought they were electing in 2013, but a papal tyrant the like of whom has not been seen for many centuries.

Emphasis mine.

32 posted on 09/22/2021 8:51:40 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide
Pope Francis turns into a different figure: arrogant, dismissive of people, prodigal of bad language and notorious for furious outbursts of temper which are known to everyone from the cardinals to the chauffeurs.

This is just like debating with people who claim that Trump said "All Mexicans are criminals" (spoiler alert: he didn't). After challenging them to actually show the quote where he supposedly said that, they switch over to a stream of accusations about how he is racist, sexist, authoritarian, whatever and even if it were all true it would not prove that he said something that he did not say.

42 posted on 09/24/2021 1:31:44 PM PDT by edwinland
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