Francis Plays Again
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This reminded the Vaticanist Rocco Palmo (Twitter.com, September 9) of a famous wisecrack by Chicago Cardinal Francis George (+2015), “We have just witnessed the death of clerical culture.”
Two weeks before, on August 18, Francis played table football. For the rest of the day, he played pope.
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