Apparently, when you’ve been trained to repeat the same Jesuitical blather every time you open your mouth, every single damn thing in the universe becomes “an exhortation to believers to overcome every form of individualism and legalism which conceals a narrow self-centredness and a fear of accepting the true meaning of” whatever the hell we’re talking about right now.

Yeah… legalism. Every single thing in the Church is about “legalism” and being “too rigid” and too legalistically rigid…

…and about how Jorge Mario Bergoglio and his one-trick Church of 1976 is going to save us from all that.

But there’s certainly no message being sent.

Nope, no signalling under here.

More on the pope’s opening speech later today, as soon as I can get one of our collaborators to give me something on it. Stand by for more thrilling episodes…

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