I had not heard of Mr Dreher, who I know know is a American resident of Hungary.
It seems that he has written several books and is well known in some circles.
Oh these incellish male Catholic public cosplayers, don't they know they have one of their own in the White House. And it is clear that they think they can determine how and where hierarchy applies. Douhat is unreadable to me because he was the Heretic flag at folk like me.
Not trying to be flippant but seriously have no idea who this Rod guy is and life's too short to try to cram everyone in so no I'm not looking him up and yes will most likely forget all about him in a few minutes.
another fucking weirdo extreme right wing douche who later moved to Hungary bc he wanted more authoritarianism. think he converted to Orthodox too, so, there you go.
The nice thing about being Catholic is you can give into your pettiness every once in awhile and so long as you go to mass and repent of the sin, God forgives you. It helps if you're good at being petty so God is amused. RIP.
Pope [pretending he knows what the fuck Rod Dreher is talking about]: Ohhhhhhhh the BENEDICT option, right, right. You wrote that?? Man that’s crazy. Anyway,
A fool who has been playing out his daddy issues on the internet for 20 years because his father, a regular charmer who was an Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan, thought (rightly) that his son was a dweeb.
I will never not be fascinated by Dreher's analysis of the child sexual abuse epidemic in the church, which only he was brilliant enough to figure out had nothing to do with pedophiles and was actually the result of child molesters:
A fascist sympathetic writer with DADDY PROBLEMS who wrecked his marriage, moved to Hungary for more fascism and has a severe emotional over-sharing issue.
the guy who used to run The American Conservative until he wrote an opinion piece so weird and alienating that his sugar daddy forced him out. He then abandoned his family to move to Hungary and cause an international incident by gossiping about things he heard behind closed doors with Orban
“The pope signed off on a negative review of my book and then forgot who I was.” Like, is he bragging? Why would you say all this unprompted and in public?
this idea that Francis personally approved all the articles in civilta cattolica is hilarious. maybe on his downtime the Pope got to look at the paper for a few minutes but no chance he'd be reading reviews of obscure writers and memorizing what the author looked like.
The issue here is the feedback loop required, such that the type of person who would delete all their socials, change their name, and move to another country is also the type of person who would never be explaining to a cartoon rabbit on the internet why the pope should know him on sight.
Rod is a 00s blogger's blogger. He misunderstood a line from MacIntyre and then wrote an entire book about how Xtians needed to create their own institutions - a thing Xtians have been famously doing for like 1900 years.
no, I don't buy it, this idea that somehow American Catholics of the Opus Dei variety dominate the thoughts there is simply not believable. As to Vance, the Pope was pretty much on his last legs and I can see how he didn't want to waste his time on him but had his health been better he would have
If the pope had loved the book and a glowing review of it had been published under his name, I can kind of understand why the author might be disappointed.
But why would you expect the pope to know the author of a book he hated?
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It seems that he has written several books and is well known in some circles.
Never mind...don't care. 😁
(Some kind of right-wing American pundit, I believe)
Francis: Oh you’re that closeted guy they keep making fun of on Chapo.
That doesn't mean FRANCIS, Rod...
Why does J Divans always look like a little boy who's been stuffed into a suit one size too small?
And why is the photoshopped hand reminiscent of goatse?
2) I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
No explanation is necessary. Please.
Just as I suspect he did with J.D.
" . . . And that's . . . something you're proud of?"
"Rod Dreher is a writer and commentator who covers topics such as religion, books, food and ideas."
Ahhhh, the "idea" beat. What a great job!
*does google search
Oh...hhhmmm...no wonder Poped Francis blanked.
Basically how to make your own cult, but in the traditional Eastern Orthodox way.
"Overpriced easy".
"Scambled".
"Money side up.
Poached nest eggs;
Moons over my 403(b)
But why would you expect the pope to know the author of a book he hated?
https://bsky.app/profile/rephemeral.bsky.social/post/3lnen5bmgqc2x
Even Wikipedia, usually neutral, has a slap-down.