July 31st, 2013
Elizabeth Scalia says that Pope Francis is just using the press:
Spinning and framing is what takes up most of the time of the mainstream press. That being so, some Catholics on social media are voicing concerns that Pope Francis is being “used” by the press in order to serve their own, gay-sympathetic agenda. Wrote one terribly irate man on Facebook: “Francis hasn’t broken through the media hostility to Catholicism—rather, they think (wrongly, I presume) that he’s an ally in their fight against Catholicism.”
Perhaps they do believe that; perhaps some of them really are “using” Francis. But how do they know he is not “using” them right back?
I think that might be an overly optimistic read on the situation.
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