{"id":4271,"date":"2018-09-03T04:30:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T04:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/03\/bergoglio-is-a-joke\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T04:30:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T04:30:01","slug":"bergoglio-is-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/03\/bergoglio-is-a-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Bergoglio is a Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">VATICAN CITY (AP) \u2014 Pope Francis on Saturday <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/9c85604728bd4065a9d759b811b6da92\">called for <\/a>concrete action to combat the \u201cemergency\u201d of plastics littering seas and oceans, lamenting the lack of effective regulation to protect the world\u2019s waters.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">And then there is <a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/pope-says-he-will-address-sex-abuse-scandal-once-hes-finished-talking-about-climate-change\/\">this<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">VATICAN CITY\u2014In his first public statement on the horrifying, devastating report on sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, Pope Francis stated he would address the controversy in detail once he\u2019s done talking about climate change for a few more weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">The head of the Roman Catholic Church claimed he is deeply concerned with the tragic report, but is \u201cjust too swamped\u201d with work fighting climate change, criticizing capitalism, and advocating for other issues of social justice to talk about the repulsive report at the moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">One of the above quotations is from a satire site, the other is not. Can you tell which is which?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Is satire satire when it coincides with the truth?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2013\/12\/the-pope-is-a-buffoon-when-it-comes-to-economics.html\">The Pope is a Buffoon When it Comes to Economics<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c022ad38e2c22200d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pope Buffoon\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c022ad38e2c22200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c022ad38e2c22200d-500wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Pope Buffoon\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VATICAN CITY (AP) \u2014 Pope Francis on Saturday called for concrete action to combat the \u201cemergency\u201d of plastics littering seas and oceans, lamenting the lack of effective regulation to protect the world\u2019s waters. And then there is this: VATICAN CITY\u2014In his first public statement on the horrifying, devastating report on sexual abuse within the Catholic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/03\/bergoglio-is-a-joke\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bergoglio is a Joke&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}