A less stressful way of looking at the papacy today on Catholic Answers Focus.

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about the papacy with the man who just wrote the brand new book, Pope Peter, all about the

papacy, and here's the deal. Pope Francis is stressing a lot of people out.

A lot of people stress out about the things Pope Francis says on airplanes, some of the

actions he takes, all that kind of thing.

Well look if we're going to be honest about it,

Pope John Paul II stressed a lot of people out. A lot of people. If you were around in

those times, you'll remember a lot of stress about him. Pope Benedict stressed a lot of

people out. Maybe fewer. Maybe because he only had a few years in there, but you get the idea. The modern papacy, it's going to stress somebody out. And part of that stress comes from the fact that we actually misunderstand the

papacy. We expect it to do things that it wasn't designed to do by God and we

expect it to have competencies to be able to be you know just to succeed in ways that God never

promised that it was going to succeed. So if we have a more tempered view of the

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