Something for the Weekend. The Get Off the Phone Song by Rhett and Link.
Good Advice for the Pope
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The awful truth.
I would strongly suggest withholding you criticisms of the Pope. He is often misrepresented and conservative Catholics do not need to pile on. Prudence and humility are called for here; sniping is not.
In most organizations persons at the top have very restricted access to Email twitter outside phones, it they are smart at their own insistence..
A poorly thought out comment, responding to a poorly phrased question will if repeated, carry the weight of “ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY” and acted on by subordinates critics etc. While they may use these things there is should be some sort of buffer to give them review. And of course such records may be bound on discovery etc. and sloppy grammar and ignorance become criminal intent.
I know the Pope like to be hands-on and spontaneous, which to a point is good, but some one should tell him how electronic communications and records work.
Agree completely. Silence is golden.
Germaine Murray: What/Who exactly are the “conservatives” piling on the Pope? Rather, liberal (those joyous at material welfare, and those dancing in the streets at any hint of change in policy regarding divorcees, homosexuality, same-sex marriage, abortion, contraceptives, women priests and married priests) Catholics and non-Catholics are the ones “piling” on the Pope, piling praise and glory, that is, for every dubious (and seemingly rash) public gaffe he makes. After a year of his own Papacy, and two thousand years of Papal traditions of what to do and what NOT to do, Pope Francis is still stumbling and bumbling along: perhaps he does need the red shoes, after all.
“He is often misrepresented”
On *occasion* he is. It’s when he’s understood correctly or chooses not to correct one of his many problematic statements that people in these parts start to worry. And rightly so.
This is too much. I enjoy much of your content. But I am tired of seeing your victim pathos and criticism of our holy father. I am unsubscribing.
We will soldier on somehow Nathan without your readership. Peter never suffers from honest criticism, but rather from flattery and sycophants who tell him he is always right. I can say this because Pope Francis has said that prior popes: “have often been narcissists, flattered and thrilled by their courtiers.”
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/01/228200595/francis-says-the-court-is-the-leprosy-of-the-papacy