I'm disgusted. John Allen, if you're reading this, go get an Unabridged Dictionary and learn some vocabulary.
The last thing the Catholic Church, or the world, needs is a "sexy" Pope. It's like imagining my father or John Wayne as "sexy." BLEAH!
Consider the source. NCR is very pro-homosexual (I don't mean that in a bad way)
No kidding! I avoid NCR like the plague. It's much better to replace reading John Allen with reading St. John the Apostle or St. John Chrysostom.
Maybe it's cause I'm older than you and have seen more earlier John Wayne movies, but I can imagine him as sexy...
The pope though, I see like I saw my favorite professors when I was in college. I had several I truly respected, perhaps revered. I was often genuinely amused by them. I truly liked several of them, and enjoyed basking myself at the warmth of their knowledge and wisdom. Kindly souls interested in reaching out and sharing what they had to teach. And loving it.
And that is how I see our Panzer Papa. Soundbytes would not do him justice.