Good stories tell the whole story

[Michie]

Pope Francis is a story teller who uses stories to make his points. A time honored method of teaching, of course, but it comes with a risk: omitting parts of a story can listeners with a distorted sense of reality behind the story. Complaining yesterday for the unpteenth time about Pharisees in the Church- apparently Francis has discounted complaints from Jews that his unrelenting portrayal of Pharisees-qua-boogeymen is lending comfort to anti-Semites-the pope told a story about a pastoral travesty in regard to baptism..

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Good stories tell the whole story