Calling Protesters in Chile ‘Dumb,’ Pope Francis Sets Off Uproar

[Humanist_Activist]

[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 it’s dumb,” Pope Francis told a group of tourists on St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City, because it “has let its head be filled with what politicians say, judging a bishop without any proof.”

“Don’t 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 pope’s 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]

1. After the meet and greet that included Kim Davis and now this,

one has to wonder if he's gotten tired of keeping up the 'kinder, gerntler Papacy' PR blitz.

[bumprstickr]

2. an accusation is not a conviction.

[Act_of_Reparation]

3. Of course not.

Clearly Barros is innocent, and the Pope is perfectly within his rights to call people "dumb" for listening to "liberal" politicians.

[rug]

4. What is dumb is forming an opinion without evidence.

[goldent]

5. Isn't social media based on the principle of forming an opinion without evidence?

[rug]

7. The only thing more prevalent is porn.

Not that they are mutually exclusive.

[Angry Dragon]

8. No, that is what is called a republican

[trotsky]

6. Reactionary pope chides leftists.

That headline has worked since the first pope, and will work until the last.

[mr blur]

9. Judging people "withut any proof"? Disgraceful!

That's the RCC's job.