“[The Pope] talks over and over again about people who are fixated on doctrine or even fixated on a certain kind of liturgy. You know, that you have to do things this way, you can’t do them that way. He doesn’t care about all of that. And he’s making it clear that he doesn’t. And it’s driving the– it’s not just driving conservatives crazy, it’s driving crazy the people who can only see things one way. You know, they’re more than political conservatives. They’re psychological types. And they’re psychological types within the religion. Anybody who grew up in any religion knows these people. They’re the people for whom everything must be this way. It can never be that way. Well, you know what? It can,” – Thomas Cahill, on the rebirth of Christianity in the Catholic Church.
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