Enough Papal Bull

As a counter to the media circus around the purported people’s pope, we provide a quote by Leon Trotsky:

“But best of all is the papal blessing broadcast to Lourdes by—radio. The paltry miracles of the Gospels side by side with the radiotelephone! And what could be more absurd and disgusting than the union of proud technology with the sorcery of the Roman chief druid? Indeed, the thinking of mankind is bogged down in its own excrement.”

—Diary in Exile (1935)

(This box is based on one that appeared in WV No. 241 [12 October 1979] during the visit of a previous pontiff.)