my interview today with Jesuit church historian John O\u2019Malley<\/a> will help bring a little sanity and common sense to Catholics being plagued with anxiety by the synodal scandal mongers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nI have managed to completely avoid bothering with the synod and am now in Scotland, where it becomes remarkably easy to focus on real things and people and not care about the internet hyperventilations of people who pretty much hyperventilate for a living. I am a bit disappointed that the normally sensible Ross Douthat has fallen into the \u201cpapal plot\u201d mode of journalism and hope that he will make a full recovery.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Glasgow and environs is beautiful! <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sean Salai, SJ, writes: Thought you might appreciate this interview between our Rome correspondent and Cardinal Wuerl on the synod conspiracy theorists like Ross Douthat, whose accusations the cardinal says have \u201cno basis in reality.\u201d Cardinal Donald Wuerl has flatly denied the allegations by some of his fellow cardinals and bishops that the fathers attending […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[374,597],"class_list":["post-94675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pope-francis","tag-synod-on-the-family"],"yoast_head":"\n
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