[Mrs. Don-o]

Did you write to Sandro Magister and ask for his list of "40 times"? I personally think he's credible without counting his page numbers. And not only that, I think I could assemble a list of 40, though it would take a couple days' work and I don't have the time to put into it. Maybe 6 - 10 of them I have personally posted on FR since last August.

But to disprove Magister all you'd have to do is come up with one times Pope Francis has addressed the Usual Disputed Questions since last August, in which he has taken a heretical point of view. This you haven't done.

And if what you already presented was your best evidence, you can't do it: because the Pope has not been talking heresy>

On the other hand, I agree with you that some of his curial appointments have been shockingly bad--- like tapping Timothy Radcliffe, OP as one of the 14 consultors for the Pontifical Council on P&J. Not only shouldn't Radcliffe be a consultor, I think his priestly faculties should be suspended. His pro-gay writings are a disgrace.

[ebb tide]

No, I didn't write to him because I'm pretty sure he can't provide them and I don't think you could even provide a list of twenty. I have never been in favor of poetic license except in fiction novels.

I think I have an idea of your Usual Disputed Questions. Until Francis, those same topics were indisputable: Francis and Kasper have opened a Pandora's box and made them disputable. Why can't Francis put them to rest with one pontifical pronouncement? It's that simple; he's the Pope after all.

Yet, he's holding a second synod, knowing full well of Cardinal Marx's warning and threat of schism if the apostate Germans don't get their way.

Francis has greatly reduced the the primacy of the papacy in favor of “collegiality”.