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Originally Posted by Skybird
I also think that he must be kept unbelievably isolated from the reality outside the walls of the vatican by his staff. That way, he lives in an isolated artificial universe, and his thinking and his statements are coming from that.
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I think a great deal of the upper echelons of the Church are like that. I think they long for a time when the Vatican had a great say in the politics of the nations of Europe, and they just haven't been able to move with the times. I think the current Pope wants to try and insert religion back into politics and take a more aggressive stance in the spreading of Christianity but because the top of the Church is in its own little hermetically sealed bubble, his statements only serve to further alienate people from the Church rather than to unite them under its banner.