When Francis became Pope I could tell that the left was going to bide its time, let everyone get their adulation out of their systems before they put their plan into order.
Their plan was to scour everything the Pope says and they look for any angle they can play up to their advantage.
Pro-life? Well, we will just ignore that. Calls for traditional marriage? We will gloss over that. But when he says anything that sounds like he agrees with the leftist’s position that is when they put the megaphone to their mouths.
The left calls it “marginalization,” and they are marginalizing the Pope to the extent that they are making him look like one of them. Meanwhile, conservatives are acting like the Pope has went to the dark side. Conservatives are the ones acting like the left used to act to JPII. Conservatives are now the ones who are saying nasty things about Francis.
Every time Francis speaks the left goes out of their way to co-opt his words. In effect they are putting their collective arm around his shoulder and they look at us and give us the distinct impression that Francis agrees with them.
Remember, he may have opinions about the climate and refugee status, but his main job is to keep the flock morally aware, which means pro-life and pro-family.
Just the things that the left is scrambling to get us to ignore.
Yes and if they keep it up they'll find they are short 70 million votes in the next election.
As usual, they ignore the pro-life part, the part about the destruction of the family from without and within(unmarried parents and gays) while writing article after article about climate change, immigration, etc. Unfortunately, a large number of conservatives are falling for it.
For the Democrat politicians, who CLAIM to be Catholic, the Church policy is that you don’t vote for ANYONE who supports abortion, no matter what their views on other policies are.