Muddling through is no substitute for clarity and the church is now paying for its fatuity and lack of a magisterium.

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Still, the self-confident fatuity and condescension of the entire show are offensive.

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Instead he pointed to the bound notebook in which so many sitters had written comments, expressed their praise and blame, wisdom and fatuity.

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