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# Wednesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/47094/
- Published: 2018-09-26T06:13:17.000Z
- Updated: 2018-09-26T06:13:17.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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And More Rambling

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Wow, *Der Spiegel* is even turning on Pope Francis. [Vatican Cardinal: Pope Francis Is 'Ice-Cold, Cunning Machiavellian'](https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/09/24/vatican-cardinal-pope-francis-ice-cold-cunning-machiavellian/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)

> According to *Der Spiegel*, Francis, who started as a “brilliant reformer,” now threatens to squander his legacy because “he often speaks at inopportune moments, yet in important moments remains silent.”

TDE readers might recall that I raised a similar point right after he counseled everyone to consider silence, to wit, "What!? Now he's counseling silence!?!?:

I, for one, am leaning more and more to the idea that this is a bad man . . . cloaked in the Papacy and therefore free from heresy . . . but a bad man nonetheless.

That's not remotely my final conclusion, I hasten to add, but more and more signs point to the idea that we have a bad man in the Chair. That, or a terribly cunning, massive, and malicious defamation campaign is being waged against him. There are a few other possibilities (maybe he's simply not terribly bright?), but I think those are the two leading explanations.

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I don't think these words, incidentally, violate St. John Bosco's three pillars of Catholicism: the Eucharist, Mary, the Pope. I realize my words are disrespectful, but I intend them for the man, not the office. It's no different than leveling criticism at the incestuous Alexander VI, who was a terribly wicked man . . . but also pope. The only difference here is that we really don't know what the story with Francis is.  

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Fr. Matthew Spencer referenced a priest who recently said in a lecture that smart phones are leading people to hell, and that, if you want to be a saint, get rid of your smart phone. He thinks it's related to the fact that online services and apps want to keep your attention at all times (he cites Tim Wu's *The Attention Merchants*). If your attention is always drawn, you're always distracted, you have no attention left for God. I have no clue what to think, but it resonates with me at some level.