{"id":22102,"date":"2013-10-16T08:05:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T13:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=22102"},"modified":"2013-10-16T13:49:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T18:49:40","slug":"who-cares-what-the-pope-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/16\/who-cares-what-the-pope-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Cares What the Pope Says?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at R<em>eal Clear Religion<\/em>, Adam Deville writes this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are drowning under far too much commentary on the papacy, almost all of it adolescent and fatuous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This excessive focus on the pope is the poisoned fruit of a marriage surely ripe for wholly justifiable divorce: nineteenth-century &#8220;Ultramontanism&#8221; and the technology-fueled celebrity culture of the twenty-first century that broadcasts every tweet and twerk around the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pope is not a demiurge. He is a human being. That is all. He has select and limited responsibility for keeping the unity of the Church, and the orthodoxy of her faith, intact, and that is it. His views on anything else are otiose and they need not be sought in the first place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearreligion.org\/articles\/2013\/10\/16\/who_cares_what_the_pope_says.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whaddayathink?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It used to be said that more sycophantic monsignori in the Vatican in the 1950s would fall to their knees when they picked up the phone and heard it was Pope Pius XII speaking. 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