text: For the first time in my lifetime the Catholic Church has a leader with gumption.
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  Yet merely for having gumption he is labelled "Progressive", as an insult.
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  And the reactionary nutcases in the senior clergy are set to do the "et tu brute" dance.
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  This is an organisation that could tolerate and cover up institutionalised child sexual abuse, but it can't tolerate a Pope who isn't obsessed with either abortion or homophobia, and who wants to do something about Climate Change. I.e., the Pope is a normal person, and they just can't stand it.
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  It speaks volumes about the Catholic Church.
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  I like Pope Frank.  He is a good guy, and his heart is in the right place.  But if this is how the rest of them behave, it is long past time to shut the whole thing down under the RICO laws.