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Originally Posted by kane
The reason is simple. Yes, the Catholic church has done and is still doing some terrible things including abusing kids and then helping cover it up. Even with all that nastiness, there are about 70 million Catholics in the US and about 1.2 billion worldwide so the Pope has an incredible amount of influence over a very large number of people. When you are that powerful, the President meets with you.
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Makes sense in terms of why they met, of course. My other question is why do people who are not catholic make such a big deal about his opinions? Obviously one can observe them in terms of the influence that they have in the Catholic Church, but I have heard so many non-catholics seeming to take what he says on climate change or economics or geopolitics as such a big deal.... That's mainly the part that I don't understand.
Then again, I don't understand why people pay attention to actors or celebrities when they give out similar opinions....
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