In an age of AI, Pope looks for “artisans of hope.”
In sounding this call to both disarm and to build, Leo turns to “twentieth-century Catholic author” JRR Tolkien. Though he can’t quite bring himself to say that he’s quoting Gandalf from Lord of the Rings, that’s exactly what’s happening.
(The encyclical says only that the quote comes from “the words of a protagonist in one of [Tolkien’s] novels.” Though Pope Francis previously spoke of Tolkien’s work, this appears to be the first time that Tolkien has ever been quoted in the highest levels of the church’s official doctrinal publications.)
It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.
Nothing he says matters until I hear: “We must purge all the pedophile priests.”
Until then, eat a dick, Leo.
I like that you immediately got a downvote, even though the guy is the head of the biggest criminal religious organization in the world, that has been caught multiple times actually corrupting governments and their police to protect priests caught doing that.
Yet people still think that he’s an authority of anything other than a mafia, even though the fucker protects criminals and in exchange gets his own country.
At least here in America, people care far more about what you say than what you actually do.
That said, Leo does have the power to purge all the pedophile priests and it’s silly to assume he doesn’t know who they all are. Until he does this, nothing he says has any real meaning. He’s just doing PR.