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I think the pope's got the right end of the stick this time--Michael Frayn

Ezra Pound said that we should do a man the courtesy of considering his ideas one at a time, and Thumper said if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all, so all I will say about the pope is that his new economic encyclical makes a lot of sense. tnh at Making Light has some thoughts on it, including the National Review idea that the former Grand Inquisitor was too gentle a soul to keep the powerful forces of liberalism that secretly run the Vatican from inserting a lot of their evil unchristian stuff about healing the sick and feeding the hungry.