I agree with gemma. I can think of different categories of people (homosexuals for one) who want their behavior constantly validated. If a person is happy and confident they are doing the right thing they won’t care what anyone else says or thinks.
We’ve set some kind of a record for the most Catholic hating threads in 48 hours.
Thank liberalism and political correctness for that. This last generation has grown up in an era where the Catholic Church herself has fallen prey to PC. The Church has thus changed her teachings to make everyone 'happy', and has even Protestantized the Mass to make it appear less, well, Catholic. This new Pope is much more of a traditionalist than I thought. He is bringing back Catholic conservatism and traditionalism and, like Jesus Christ Himself, he doesn't care what people think. If the Pope didn't believe that the Catholic Church were the one true Church, then why would he even be a Catholic? What the hateful and/or ignorant Protestants don't understand is that the Pope isn't condemning them, he's opening up the doors of Truth to them, which is contained in the Catholic Church. He is actually reaching out and saying: "Jump off that uncertain ship you're on and come aboard, we are the ship of salvation, the Church founded by Our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ on Peter 2,000 years ago". If they take it the wrong way and respond with hatred and ridicule that's their problem. Jesus taught the Truth, but He forced no one to follow Him. Many walked away from Him, laughed at Him, reviled Him. So be it.
Anyway, I don't think the Pope's latest statement is the primary reason why so many non-Catholics are spitting venom at the Pope lately, they already had that hatred for the Catholic Church seething and boiling in their hearts, just waiting for an excuse to let it out.
viva il Papa