Amy Welborn weighs in:
Secrecy, hero-worship, deification of individuals, reflexive dismissal of critics as wrong-headed or even of the devil, an untoward interest in money and appearance, manipulation of members, demeaning attitudes toward non-members, deceptive means … trouble.
But she must know the Pope's mojo: no enemies to the right; no discourse with his critics.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/02/a-cult-within-catholicism/206014/
