I don’t think it’s a Protestant/Catholic thing. Many pastors and leaders in the Catholic Church, including members of the hierarchy, don’t stammer either. On the other hand, there are large numbers of Protestants (such as the Episcopalians, famous for last week’s Islamic service at their National Cathedral) who seem to believe in something they call “Chrislam,” thinking they can somehow work out a synthesis between the two irrevocably opposed beliefs that will ingratiate them with Muslims.
I think the main problem with the Pope is that he is not a very deep thinker and also that he is somehow trapped in a 1970s bell-bottom and denim workshirt mentality where an enemy is just a friend who doesn’t really know us yet, and all we have to do is hold hands and sway in a universal peace-circle. He’s very foolish on this and it’s a dangerous time to have a foolish Pope.
Those people at the National Cathedral aren’t historic Protestants. They are Protestant only in the sense that they claim to be Christians who aren’t Catholic. The truth is they are post-Christian apostates. I don’t know why they bother.
Maybe the problem with your pope is that he is a JESUIT. Then again, I am no fan of any pope, whether Jesuit or not.