[ebb tide]

To have a "feeling" or be "tempted" --- amounts to just that: a feeling, a temptation.

It's more that that. Francis inferred the Blessed Mother may have despaired.

[piusv]

It's more that that. Francis inferred the Blessed Mother may have despaired.

And that would be a full-on sin. The Catholic teaching is that the Immaculate Conception does not sin in words, actions, OR THOUGHTS. Francis absolutely inferred Mary sinned in her thoughts.

But, although a very heretical thing to say, it's also a very "ecumenical" thing to say.