The pope’s approach has been to open controversies on the widest possible array of fronts, supplemented with a running critique of conservatives, and especially traditionalists, for being rigid and pharisaical and coldhearted. Thus, the pope who preached decentralization and diversity embraced a micromanagerial cruelty.
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Pope Francis: a decade of division
Ross Douthat, NYTimes
Thursday, March 16, 2023