I posted this on another thread some time ago. Deserves repeating:
Put a Marxist in charge of the Roman church, the Catholic FReepers cover for him at every step, they do it all the time on the RF. Whatever political conservatism they might have goes out the window it seems, it apparently doesn’t mean diddly to a Catholic.
Taking a look at their history, it is understandable. Catholics were totalitarian tyrants from the day they sold their souls to the Roman emperor Constantine, continuing as Roman empire tyrants until the modern era put an end to it (thank God). Marxism is not such a bad thing to people of such a totalitarian bent. No wonder you have no problem with this Marxist Pope.
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/16/is_pope_francis_a_fraud/
"As Fox and many other Catholic and ex-Catholic dissidents see it, Vatican II marked the moment when the church had the chance to reinvent itself as a flexible moral and spiritual force in a rapidly changing world. Indeed, it briefly seemed to do just that – and it’s important to understand that Bergoglio, like Joseph Ratzinger and Karol Wojtyla before him, was part of the right-wing counterrevolution within the church that aggressively rolled back those changes, crushed dissident thought and reasserted the absolute power of the pope and his hierarchy.
"Pope Francis is a longtime ally of Communion and Liberation, a fiercely conservative Catholic organization that insists on “total fidelity and communion” with the church leadership and is devoted, among other things, to battling European socialism and Latin American liberation theology. In Italian politics, CL has been closely tied to the party of Silvio Berlusconi, and its founder was an intimate friend of Cardinal Ratzinger before he became Benedict XVI."
I love to hear sweet, reassuring words like that.. :o)