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An age when the National Catholic Reporter <\/em>is calling allegedly Faithful Conservative Catholics[TM], whose special boast is that they are not CINO\u2019s like those awful Reporter <\/em>readers, to listen to the Pope and not attack him.<\/a><\/p>\n

And the response to that can be pretty neatly divided between those Catholics who say, \u201cI\u2019m glad the Reporter <\/em>is listening to the Pope instead of attacking him as they formerly did\u201d and those who say \u201cWhat further evidence do we need? Pope Francis is clearly the enemy of the Church! Look! A ritually impure source agrees with him! We, the Greatest Catholics of All Time, must save the Church from the Pope!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"