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Whether it’s papal generosity and restraint, as his admirers would have it, or a Machiavellian remains that if a leader believes he or she has been misrepresented and yet remains silent, even sending signals of approval, then ownership of that message shifts to the leader.

— John L. Allen Jr.

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