At last, a George Will column worth reading
I was once a big fan of George Will. Over the recent couple of years, I’ve become far less so. I’m not sure if it is due to my regrettable aging, or to his, but I am more often than not, put off by some of his “I’m lots smarter than you” opining.
But, as the saying goes, “a stopped clock…”
This is one of those occasions when George has the “correct time”, and position, on a subject of major importance.
It is a superb column that points out the absurdity of the Pope Francis agenda, as he prepares to come here, and amid thousands of cheering throngs, exhort America to repent, for all its capitalist, consumerist, globally exploitative policies and way of life. As he endorses the Obama “gospel” of “climate change”, income inequality, etc., one wonders which of these two is the pontiff and which is the faithful follower.
At any rate, this is a George Will column well worth reading.
Pope Francis’ fact-free flamboyance (excerpt)
Francis’s fact-free flamboyance reduces him to a shepherd whose selectively reverent flock, genuflecting only at green altars, is tiny relative to the publicity it receives from media otherwise disdainful of his church. Secular people with anti-Catholic agendas drain his prestige, a dwindling asset, into promotion of policies inimical to the most vulnerable people and unrelated to what once was the papacy’s very different salvific mission.
Dear Pope: If CO2 is a pollutant, then you feed humanity
DLH
