RicOlie_2 said:
Warbler said:
This thread seemed the most appropiate thread for this.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/13/392817912/pope-francis-says-his-tenure-at-the-vatican-will-be-short?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=storiesfromnpr
You have any thoughts about this, RicOlie_2?
No.
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Just kidding. I'm not really surprised. I mean, the guy only has one lung, not to mention that he hasn't been afraid to speak out against popular or powerful people, like the Mafia. However, I do hope he lasts a lot longer than he expects to, and doesn't kill himself trying to reform the curia. He's up against a fair bit of opposition there, if I understand the situation correctly, and the Church needs more popes like him: unafraid to reform and saintly. I only hope that either he or his successor is rewarded in their efforts to fix problems with the Church's leadership and his/their work is not undone.
*sigh*
I can see the CRUEL and HORRIFYING methods and modes of operation of that organization. I can see and understand HOW.
I have TREMENDOUS difficulty processing WHY.
The characters who run all this are in their sixties, seventies, and eighties.
"George" is pushing eighty and in poor health.
Why would anyone in a position like that think of anything other than bringing MAXIMUM destruction upon it?
They are OBSESSED with the power to destroy people. They get their SICK and PSYCHOPATHIC jollies out of proving their control.
Why shoot fish in a barrel? Why hunt the ducks on the pond, just trying to feed?
There's NO SPORT in SADISTIC HARM to all the half-decent, disparate, desparate people just trying to get by.
If they love destructive power and control, and they CERTAINLY do, there can be nothing greater than demolishing their own operation and all of the MONSTERS within.