Martha and Gert Heizer follow Greg Reynolds.
But Pope Francis says what the Church has always said about ... well, everything, if you had bothered to pay attention.
So he must be "a liberal".
Right?
Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
His comments about the UN (which all proper conservatives think should be disbanded) were disturbing.
ReplyDeleteDoes the man want the worst of Catholic Social Teaching-all that horrific "world political authority" stuff to come true? The EU is already making it happen
When Popes say that, then they mean the Papacy.
ReplyDeleteThey are, in that case, somewhere between expressing an ultimate ideal without any hope of practical realisation, and just trying their luck.
Still, there would have been no Iraq War. Nor would the circumstances that gave rise to the Crash ever have arisen.