text: I suspect this is about "as good as it gets" withing the RC realm of life.  You have to consider the "realm of reality" within which RCism was founded.... smoke and mirrors, medieval magic and the like. After all Mr. Francis is himself a Catholic, despite his apparent bent on punishing those who espouse the more traditional aspects of imperial Romanism... run fast in the other directions and shout from the rooftops the evils of imperial Romanism... the pope might mean well but it is not within his corporeal abilities to sever the ties that bind humans to the malicious, medieval, man-made doctrines that comprise  so-called "traditional" RCism.