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http://fft3.com/?s=api/\think\app/invokefunction Almost everything in life that you’re supposed to do is obvious – I think most people can look back on only four or five serious decisions in their life (which haunt us forever, of course) when we really do not know what the right thing to do is.  But it is so unusual, so horribly and wonderfully unusual, for the right thing to be done, ever .  So every time this pope does something obviously right I feel it is yet another “man bites dog” headline.  He asks the bishop of Limburg to take a leave of absence after he spent $40 million renovating his residence – such an obvious and Christian use of the pope’s authority, and yet of course it feels like it is utterly unprecedented.  And to me it’s like the feeling when love enters into your life after long absence – you didn’t even know how much you missed it until it was there again, and you are reminded, “Oh yes, this is what life is supposed to be like.” And I think of how much we need this love, the real message of the Gospel, which alone seems to make social life meaningful.