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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.
I don’t know if I would hold this against Bob Prevost when he was young and dumb and of small account in his order. This was when Reagan was getting nuclear missiles into NATO to counter a Soviet buildup. The European Left, led by Communist parties in Europe, went wild and massive protests were held. Reagan stood firm, as did NATO. One of several events that caused Gorbachev to conclude that the Soviet failing economy could not compete militarily with the US and to attempt to reform the Soviet Union, events which led to the downfall of Communism in Europe and the Soviet Union.
Prevost was far from making policy at that time and I am inclined to give him a pass. The problem is that the bad judgment he displayed then, he is continuing to show as Pope.