Frankly, I’m surprised that more popes haven’t resigned. Usually, they hang on way past their sell-by date and this pope is such a hard ass, I really have to wonder if it was as voluntary as they say it is.
What’s amazing is that the comings and goings of this one old dude in Rome still has the power to take up space on the front page of the NYTimes. You don’t see that with other religious leaders. Maybe Pat Robertson and the Dalai Lama will get prominent obituaries. But in spite of all the progress we’ve made since the 16th century, the pope still has the world’s attention and this one’s brand of hard line, uncompromising patriarchal authoritarianism has been particularly irksome.
What are the chances that out of the Yes men he has undoubtably surrounded himself with that one will emerge who will modernize the church?
Yeah, I didn’t think so either.
What are the chances we could get the NYTimes to stop paying so much attention?
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