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Liberal Love and Tolerance Come to the Vatican

Pope Francis’s attempts to silence critics may cause the very disunity he claims to oppose.

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Robert J. Hutchinson
Dec 08, 2023
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Pope Francis holds an episcopal ordination mass on October 17, 2021 at St. Peter's basilica in The Vatican.

Well, the ailing Pope Francis has struck again.  This time the 86-year-old pontiff decided to remove the man he described as “his enemy,” the conservative gadfly Cardinal Raymond Burke, by canceling the cardinal’s Vatican stipend (said to be around 5,000 euros per month) and, worse, also forcing him to give up a subsidy on his 4,400-square foot Vatican …

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