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Bearing false witness? What? I think not. According to official Vatican sources, what I stated earlier is EXACTLY WHAT HE DID:

http://themoynihanletters.com/from-the-desk-of/letter-47-to-mary

His very first act as "pope" was to go to slip out of the Vatican, drive across Rome to the Basilica of St. Mary Major, the largest basilica in the world DEDICATED TO Mary, the so-called "Mother of God". He then proceeded to pray in front of an ancient ICON, called the Salus Populi Romani, or the Protectress of the Roman People (preposterously held by Roman Catholic tradition to have been painted by St. Luke himself). He also brought flowers and laid them beneath the idolic ICON IN HONOR OF MARY!

So, the very first act of this new "pontificate" was to pray before the idol of the Virgin Mary which he chose to do of his own free will! So much for being an "advocate for the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

I didn't say or do these things. According to Roman Catholic "church" sources this is the very FIRST official act "pope" Francis did as "pope".

I am not "bearing false witness", all I did was REPEAT what the RC "church" SAID that HE DID (they even have pictures to prove it! Don't believe me? Then read it and see for your self and weep because your new "pope" is no friend of Christ, he is an idol worshiper, just like those before him:

http://themoynihanletters.com/from-the-desk-of/letter-47-to-mary

Yes, bearing false witness. Creating a false narrative by twisting the pope's actions is bearing false witness. I have difficulty believing that a nonCatholic cannot understand the difference between a basilica that honors the service of a historical Christian figure and a site of idol worship. There's a Protestant church I'm familiar with that's dedicated to St Mark yet I've never heard a single nonCatholic accuse them of worshiping Mark. So I know that this concept isn't foreign to nonCatholics.

I also believe that nonCatholics are capable of grasping the difference between praying to an image and praying to God in the presence of an image that invokes memories of significant events in Christian history. We had flowers in front of my dad's picture at his funeral in his protestant church. None of the nonCatholics present seemed to consider that idol worship. Not even if the pastor held that picture in his hands while praying. So again, this concept isn't foreign to nonCatholics.

So yeah, I stand by my statement that comments such as those you made are false witness. But you answer to God, not me, so I wish you peace as I leave this thread.