By George Will | Sunday, 20 Sep 2015 09:04 AM
Pope Francis embodies sanctity but comes trailing clouds of sanctimony. With a convert’s indiscriminate zeal, he embraces ideas impeccably fashionable, demonstrably false, and deeply reactionary.
They would devastate the poor on whose behalf he purports to speak, if his policy prescriptions were not as implausible as his social diagnoses are shrill.
Supporters of Francis have bought newspaper and broadcast advertisements to disseminate some of his woolly sentiments that have the intellectual tone of fortune cookies. One example: “People occasionally forgive, but nature never does.”
The Vatican’s majesty does not disguise the vacuity of this. Is Francis intimating that environmental damage is irreversible? He neglects what technology has accomplished regarding London’s air (see Page 1 of Dickens’ “Bleak House”) and other matters.
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Ah Newsmax, that beacon of credible and level headed journalism. Glad to see PJ is representing Ridgewood well!
speaking of beacons of credible and level headed journalism, the Huffington Post is embracing the Pope… that should tell you everything you need to know
Channel 13 show last night on Bergoglio was very interesting…..this guy is a sharp politician…..
to 9:49 AM – the article is written by George Will, not Newsmax.
What Newsmax can be blamed for is title they put on George Will’s opinion piece – the Washington Post had it as “Pope Francis’s fact-free flamboyance”.