But he still carries forward lots of backward, nutty ideas that very few people will ever pay attention to. I'd bet there are more "ex-Catholics" these days than there are Catholics.
I say very few. Obviously, some will pay close attention. For instance, on the local "news" the day they announced the new Pope, they did a remote shoot at a big Catholic church downtown. One woman they chose to put on the air was saying, quite breathlessly, that "as soon as I heard the news of the new Pope I left work and literally ran to church so I could pray and say 'Thank God, we're not alone any longer!!'". She almost had tears in her eyes.
She was praying to God, thanking God that, now that a new Pope had been named, she was no longer "Popeless" I guess. Or leaderless. Or ... brainless??
All I could do was to slowly shake my head.
And then the commentator says that Catholics "flocked" to the church after the announcement, and they cut to a shot inside the church. It was huge, but it was only about 10% full. This is "flocked?"
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