PopeWatch: Birds of a Feather
- 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’m probably going to have to confess this, but the term Troublesome priest comes to mind…
It can’t happen )soon enough!
Whoever wrote that hagiographic piece of fiction (the Medal citation) obviously failed to check with anyone in Argentina. As our host has remarked more than once, there are good reasons why Francis has never returned home since his installation as Pope.
@ Frank
Scratching my head on his reluctance to return…
When Pope John Paul II returned to Poland in 1979, nearly 300,000 people greeted him in Victory Square. Polish journalists called it the largest crowd to welcome a pope in Poland’s postwar history. (A I )
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Yes, good Catholics Joe Biden, who has never had a healthy relationship with truth.
Anybody care to place bets on the amount of time that will pass between inauguration and the first criticism from Francis? I give it 3 days.
More travesty/
Optimist, the Papal chastisement of Trump has already begun. He’s sending DC our Bishop.