PopeWatch: The Dictatorship of Doing
- 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.

Maybe he’ll relax while his synodal church does the doing for him?
To paraphrase Nike, Just don’t do it!
Amen. “Let us pray for the Pope…”
Great – he can come do my washing and dishes.
The trouble with all the do-ers at the Vatican is that they aren’t busy in the sense of St. Martha (“Thou art busy about many things”), but busy in the way my grandmother used it of certain other ladies (“She’s so busy!“).
Caritas means love in action by doing for those who need help. listening is part of Caritas and not the absence of it. What a mess of a Pope.
I hope he chills about the TLM.