Popes used to understand that some people in this Vale of Tears could only be “dialogued” with through superior military power. The Western faith in talk is apparently imperious to evidence, an example of invincible ignorance. The last Pope to understand this was Pius XII.
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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
This is the same Papacy that believes the Communist Party in China is more competent to pick bishops than the Holy Spirit so it’s not surprising that the Vatican is falling back on secular humanist solutions to practical problems