Revelation: He Lives In a Delusional World, Not a Different One
I thought this 60 Minutes piece on this RC cleric was very good for delivering the central insight. And the insight could be summed up in the final words in the interview with Morley Safer. FIrst I want to tell you where this man got his blustery, faux-hale-fellow-well-met bravado. It was perfected in the Catholic context by one Bishop Robert Lynch, who arranged the former Pope's first trip to the US. And later was the USCCB top executive. It is a phony tame-macho bluster which is so recognizable, and the former Rector I knew perfected it, and passed it on throughout the US hierarchy. Had it not been for a scandal, he would be sitting in New York. Instead, this ditto-head is there. Morely Safer is a savvy interviewer, and wouldn't let this performer off the hook. In the end, all he could do was muster the pseudo-insight, that you live in your world, and I live in mine, and I am glad you are visiting. NO! Mr Safer was expressing views consistent with living in the real world. This man...
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