{"id":6978,"date":"2015-09-19T08:48:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T08:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/09\/19\/the-fact-free-flamboyance-of-francis\/"},"modified":"2015-09-19T08:48:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T08:48:13","slug":"the-fact-free-flamboyance-of-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/09\/19\/the-fact-free-flamboyance-of-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fact-Free Flamboyance of Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">George Will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/pope-franciss-fact-free-flamboyance\/2015\/09\/18\/7d711750-5d6a-11e5-8e9e-dce8a2a2a679_story.html\" target=\"_self\">takes<\/a> the present Pope to task.&#0160; Francis is as foolish as Obama.&#0160; Both are much exercised over &#39;climate change&#39; but not so much when it comes to the slaughter of Christians in the Middle East and the destruction of their languages and culture.&#0160; If Obama is an Obamination, Bergoglio is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/imbroglio\" target=\"_self\">imbroglio<\/a> of politically correct nonsense.&#0160; Both are disasters.&#0160; The first for the USA and the world, the second for the Catholic Church.&#0160; The real disaster is not climatic but cultural , and these two clowns have nary a clue.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Francis\u2019s 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\u2019s very different salvific mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Related:&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2013\/12\/the-pope-is-a-buffoon-when-it-comes-to-economics.html\" target=\"_self\">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;\">Click on that link, boys and girls, it is a fine post.&#0160; If you are liberal you will learn something.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Will takes the present Pope to task.&#0160; Francis is as foolish as Obama.&#0160; Both are much exercised over &#39;climate change&#39; but not so much when it comes to the slaughter of Christians in the Middle East and the destruction of their languages and culture.&#0160; If Obama is an Obamination, Bergoglio is an imbroglio of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/09\/19\/the-fact-free-flamboyance-of-francis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Fact-Free Flamboyance of Francis&#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-6978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6978","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=6978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}