Millions of non-Catholics look to the Catholic Church for a certain clarity and stability, even though they do not adhere to the Church with an act of faith. When there is a bad Pope—and this one is, in some respects, the worst Pope of all time—they miss that clarity and stability they are used to.
That’s true, and I was disappointed when Ratzinger/Benedict stepped down. The replacement you got is a disaster.
WHY ON EARTH do non-Catholics look to the Church for that? Protestants eschewed the Catholic Church hundreds of years ago. CLARITY and STABILITY are supposed to come from YOUR OWN PROTESTANT DENOMINATIONS. It's like looking to an enemy for comfort.
Protestants have spent millions of hours disclaiming the so-called sins and errors of the heretical PAPACY. NOW you say that Protestants, all this time, have been looking to the Church they abandoned for "clarity and stability"?????
How can the "heretical" Catholic Church provide clarity and stability? Didn't defrocked Father Martin Luther provide that? Don't you have ANY "clarity and stability" in your own Protestant denomination?
How is he a "bad" Pope? And in what respect is he a "bad pope"? Was it his act of providing free showers and barbers in the front of the Vatican? Was it the sending of help to the THOUSANDS of charities for the poor and needy that he was a "bad" pope? Has he changed doctrine? What has he done that is so "bad"???
Just curious, AMcG, about your criteria for "bad" pope? What did the previous pope(s) do that was so good?
MAKES NO SENSE!
I do miss the scroll feature!
MY my!
So judgemental!!!
Just WHAT about Doctrine has he taught wrongly?