text: TR makes the case that essentially the Vatican is primarily interested in being a political power player rather than a moral movement for humanity.  The former are legion; the latter are largely loners.
  As long as the Vatican persists in demanding to be recognized as a political state (alone among all religions) it has repudiated being a valid agent of the teaching of Jesus.
  Thomas Keneally's new book, The Crimes of the Fathers, underscores the nature of the institutional Roman church: behind the compelling mystery of Catholicism, with its foundation in the message of ‘Caritas Christi’ [the love of Christ] … lay a cold and largely self-interested corporate institution.
  Albeit it highly political than moral.
  TR surprisingly is revealing a bit of the real Francis rather than the gaga figure of mass media. Welcome reporting on TR's part to show Francis' slip showing beneath his white gown.