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“Francis has sought to drive a stake through the heart of a clericalist mentality in the Church that protected abusers,” wrote Christopher Lamb, an analyst for The Tablet, a progressive Catholic news site.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2018

Previous ages were often, alas, aristocratic in politics or clericalist in religion; but they were always democratic in philosophy; they appealed to man, not to particular men.

From George Bernard Shaw by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)