Only to a modern western mindset. . . .actions can be difficult to understand when they are divorced from the culture and traditions that birthed them.
There is really nothing "goulish" about it.
That is a matter of opinion.
And as far as miracles attributed to Santa Pope? Give me a break.
"How is it possible to have a civil war?"- George Carlin
"So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot." - George Orwell