So, how does the secular media cover the pope going on retreat?

With headlines like this:

Pope Gets Away from Vatican to Work on Correcting “Defects” 

AP’s lede:

Pope Francis is getting away from the Vatican for a few days and taking his advisers along, to work, as he put it, on fixing the ” many defects we all have.”

Francis told tens of thousands of Romans, tourists and pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square that he and top aides will begin a spiritual renewal retreat Sunday. Until Friday morning, they will spend time listening to reflections, meditating and praying in Ariccia, a Rome suburb.

The pope said that amid “the noise, the confusion,” one hears “only superficial voices.” During the retreat “we can listen to the voice of Jesus and also correct so many defects we all have,” he said.

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