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PopeWatch: Open Thread
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.
. He gives me a subdural hematoma and an epidural hematoma…three of each….and poison sumac.
ps…He taught children in June by recitation that ” immigrants are not a danger “. An Afghan immigrant used an axe just now on several train riders in Germany…two in critical condition.
When you live behind very high walls protected by security, immigrants are not an immediate danger. He should know.
We are told by Archbishop Georg Gänswein that “Important magisterial tenets cannot be changed by half sentences or somewhat ambiguous footnotes.” Basically this means that nothing Pope Francis says needs to be taken seriously.
“That word you keep using . . . I don’t think it means what you think it means.”
Abp Gänswein: Pope’s way of talking can lead to bizarre interpretations; “Francis Effect” appears not to have transpired; Uncertainties have certainly increased
Our prayer used to be, “From pompous Popes, Spare us O Lord!”; now, “From comic Popes, Spare us &c”