[opus1]

This effort gets a big boost when it’s endorsed by an ostensibly honest and spiritual man who guides a billion people and can provoke an uprising with a few inspiring sentences. Of course I mean the Pope. This is also a “first” in history, the Catholic Church on the side of the revolutionaries.

[prof.h.mandingo]

Wrong. Unless it is specific circumstances Catholics are not required to do what the Pope says. If our conscience tells us he is wrong then we are under no obligation to obey a Pope. Only exception is when he is speaking ex cathedra. I think that has only happened twice. The idea we have to obey the Pope in everything is a common canard against Catholics.