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$\"crowds2\"$ <\/a>A couple of priest friends of mine\u2013I\u2019ll call them Father Gary\u00a0and Father Larry\u2013 who are cradle Catholics\u2013 were chuckling about the Pope\u2019s visit last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody\u2019s crazy about this pope.\u201d Fr Larry\u00a0said. \u201cLiberals think he\u2019s wonderful. Conservatives think he\u2019s terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s right.\u201d Fr Jerry pitched in, \u201cThen the Pope talks about the devil, says same sex marriage is evil, meets Kim Davis and says women can\u2019t be ordained. Then the liberals are howling and the conservatives are delighted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you converts!\u201d Fr Larry said jokingly, \u201cYou get all worked up about the pope either because you love him or hate him. You should take a deep breath. He\u2019s just the pope. We have good popes. We have bad popes. We have mediocre popes.\u201d<\/p>\n

He shrugged, \u201cI\u2019m a cradle Catholic. I\u2019ve seen popes come and go. The pope is just the pope. He\u2019s not God. He\u2019s not an oracle of the Holy Spirit. He\u2019s not the Great High Poobah or the Almighty Monarch of the Glen. He\u2019s the Pope. He\u2019s the successor of Peter, the Vicar of Christ and the Head of the Church on earth\u2013but he\u2019s still just the pope.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fr Larry was making a good point, and an ironic one. Isn\u2019t it strange in this democratic age of \u201cthe people\u201d that everybody seems to have gone pope crazy?<\/p>\n

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