The New Yorker goes to hell

…or at least, follows Pope Francis up to the gates and peeks inside.

Hendrik Hertzberg is willing to give the Pope the benefit of the doubt. That’s good.

What’s remarkable to me is how much attention the modern world pays to this barely-living relic at the head of a dying institution. I mean, American Catholicism is pretty well assimilated, right? Why do people still notice this celibate white male who dares to wear white as he presides over a vast network of sexual abusers, along with the few backward dupes who still think God not only exists, but cares about who we know in the Biblical sense.

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