The current Pope only seeks confirmation of the views that have been set in his brain like concrete for decades. He carefully filters out any contrary information.
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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 carefully filters out any contrary information.”
As children all five of my kids were experts at filtering. They outgrew it.
It takes a special kind of ham-fisted authoritarian to alienate the fanatically-loyal Ukrainian Catholic Church, but our pontiff was up to the challenge. I’m sure the rest of the Eastern Catholic Churches are taking notes.
He also managed to offend Putin’s House Chaplain, which would be fine but for the fact he’s essentially begging to be allowed to visit Moscow.