PNoy’s tasteless remarks lambasting priests in front of Pope Francis during the latter’s courtesy call in Malacañang betrays the boorishness and ill-breeding of our country’s president.

He turned what ought to have been a gracious and polite meeting (hence, the term “courtesy”) between heads of state into a gripe session against the Pope’s colleagues – a diplomatic faux pas that left many foreign envoys in the audience shocked and speechless.

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