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Related: About this forumCalling Protesters in Chile ‘Dumb,’ Pope Francis Sets Off Uproar
[div class="excerpt" style="margin-left:1em; border:1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius:0.4615em; box-shadow:3px 3px 3px #999999;"]SANTIAGO, Chile Many watched in disbelief: There he was, Pope Francis, calling people in Osorno, a city in southern Chile, dumb for protesting against a bishop accused of being complicit in clerical sexual abuse.
The Osorno community is suffering because its dumb, Pope Francis told a group of tourists on St. Peters Square in Vatican City, because it has let its head be filled with what politicians say, judging a bishop without any proof.
Dont be led by the nose by the leftists who orchestrated all of this, the pope said.
The video, filmed by an Argentine tourist in May, was obtained by a Chilean television station and broadcast Friday, quickly instilling doubts here about the popes commitment to protecting victims of sexual abuse.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/world/americas/calling-protesters-in-chile-dumb-pope-francis-sets-off-uproar.html?_r=0
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)one has to wonder if he's gotten tired of keeping up the 'kinder, gerntler Papacy' PR blitz.
bumprstickr
(74 posts)Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)Clearly Barros is innocent, and the Pope is perfectly within his rights to call people "dumb" for listening to "liberal" politicians.
rug
(82,333 posts)goldent
(1,582 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)Not that they are mutually exclusive.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)trotsky
(49,533 posts)That headline has worked since the first pope, and will work until the last.
mr blur
(7,753 posts)That's the RCC's job.