In anticipation of the grand meeting in Rome of Pope and President:
The leader can be described thusly:
- He is impulsive.
- He insults enemies.
- He uses twitter daily.
- He loves media attention.
- His most ardent supporters resemble a cult.
- He is autocratic.
- He is sometimes inarticulate when he goes off script.
- He is a source of division.
- His statements are frequently factually challenged.
- He believes in conspiracy theories.
Pope Francis? President Trump?
Answer: Yes.
Yep. All of the above. Except, there is one yuuge difference. President Trump recently said at Liberty University, “In America, we worship God, not the Government.” Or, put another way, we worship the Creator, not Creation.
Well, ginny, there is actually another difference. Pope Francis is a hardened ideologue who is not shaken by facts and President Trump has no ideological core.
Other than that one is an intellectual and one is the total opposite of an intellectual, one has led a life or oral rectitude and service and the other debauchery and self-service, one tells the truth, the other one lies, etc.
This post veers into the territory of false witness, Donald Trump’s home turf.
Pope Francis an intellectual? I doubt even he would claim that. Oral rectitude? The Pope Francis insult generator would testify against that. A life of service? In what cause? That of Cardinal Kasper, the old adversary of Pope Benedict?
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2017/05/burying-benedict
Telling the truth? Pope Francis has the habit of saying things that are just not so. His belief, repeatedly stated, that arms merchants cause wars for example. Pope Francis is a walking epitome of the fake news concept.
https://the-american-catholic.com/2016/03/28/popewatch-merchants-of-death-yet-again/
This post veers into the territory of false witness, Donald Trump’s home turf.
Mote removal might not be on the current schedule.
It appears the President has a knack for surrounding himself with good advisors, good people and also that he is willing to listen and learn..
I don’t know if the pope selected his closest advisors or if they selected him.