Time Person of the Year 2013

Re:Time Person of the Year 2013 by bowlofpetunias on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @10:14AM (#6887962)

"significantly more liberal" in this context means he's a slightly less hateful reactionary bigot.

If the pope ran for election in the average western democracy he would be far right, next to the neo-nazi's and the anti-immigrant parties.

But because it's the catholic church we even use the word "liberal" to describe his ideology.

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Re:Time Person of the Year 2013 by dragonwriter on Thursday December 12, 2013 @01:59AM (#6893188)

> If the pope ran for election in the average western democracy he would be far right

The fairly harsh criticism of modern capitalism in Evangelii Gaudium is hardly consistent with the far right. Certainly, the Church has right-wing positions on some issues -- which are in many cases the issues Francis has said the Church tends to excessively focus on and needs to not overemphasize -- while on others it has fairly left-wing positions.

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Re:Time Person of the Year 2013 by andrewcooke on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @10:47AM (#6888161)

this simply doesn't make sense. i live in a catholic country with extreme right-wing parties. they are to the right of this pope. they are worried by him.

also, try learning how the word "more" modifies an adjective. 1e99 is "more small" than 1e100.

i despair at the level of comments here.

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