[originalbuckeye]

I think the Catholic Church has taken a hit all over the world. Yes, the abuse has been a real tragedy for the victims and for the faithful who trusted their leaders. But this Pope, who seems to have little respect for the traditions and the Canon Law of the Church, has done massive damage, too. I think back on Reagan, Thatcher and Pope John Paul II, and how they worked together to get rid of Communism. It seems that Francis was moved into the Pope position to help the worldwide progressive movement. Very sad.

[Jeff Chandler]

A close non-Catholic relative (and a very fine man) was quite impressed with Pope Francis because he eschewed traditional trappings of the office; seemed like an average Joe.

I will not say "I told you so" because there is NOTHING satisfying about this.

[Hammerhead]

13,000 suckers.

Catholicism is a joke and always has been.

Who died and made that douche bag hope anyway? It’s a rhetorical question folks. A ‘Pope’,.....God’s personnel liaison on planet earth.

Give a break.

Just some white guy in a funny hat.

[LIConFem]

I guess Pope Commie I isn’t drawing the crowds hid predecessors did.

[dfwgator]

There needs to start being protests during Bergoglio’s audiences in the Vatican.

[brownsfan]

As causal, non Catholic observer, I always thought the molestation issue was media overhype of rare events.

It appears that these events are much more frequent than I thought, and the Catholic hierarchy is more interested in protecting each other, than protecting the victims.

I would not consider becoming Catholic, and I would not take the chance of allowing my child to be alone with a priest. The Catholic Church may not survive this, and that’s a shame.

[onedoug]

When do we hear the mass that will follow this bergoglio imposter’s resignation?

[lee martell]

It didn’t help matters that there were lots of rules and prohibitions about what could be taken into the stadium where The Pope spoke. There was a long walk from the parking area into the speaker area. There had been four or five days of rain, so the ground was loose and muddy. Not very practical for the elderly or the fragile ambulator.

If you had a fold out chair, you had to carry it with you, no parking too close.No baby buggies allowed inside (they called these Prams). It also didn’t help matters that The Pope has for once been rather quiet about this latest wave of sex scandals in the Catholic Church.

[BlessedBeGod]

I wish I could remember where I read it, but supposedly there was an anti-Francis group that got several hundred thousand of the tickets and purposely hoarded them, with the intention of not showing up.

[jalisco555]

I was in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1979 when John Paul II visited. A million people showed up.

[Yaelle]

Hey, Mr. Pope. You had better come clean on all this because it is really starting to taint your church.

Personally, I have been involved with SNAP (survivors) and I don’t hold it against the Catholic religion because there have been kids raped by Protestant ministers and rabbis (and no doubt imams though I don’t have personal knowledge). But the Catholic hierarchy has been pervasively covering up the bad seeds. The Pope is at the top. There is a lot of corruption in Rome (my son’s grandfather was from Rome) and that has been allowed to trickle down.

THIS STOPS NOW.

[libstripper]

All 130,000 should have turned around and mooned the Fake Pope. Of course, given his anti-Christian ideology and likely sexual orientation, that might have just gotten him drooling.

[katana]

The Irish have had an interesting relationship with Rome dating back to the 12th century, when the Papacy backed the Anglo-Norman invasion of the knight Richard de Clare (Strongbow) followed by his Liege Lord Henry II, and the forceful "Romanization" of Irish Catholicism. Following the conversion of the Irish by St. Patrick, which involved adaptation to established local customs, the Irish church had been enormously successful and actually led the "Dark Ages" restoration of Christianity in Scotland, Britain, and the Continent. But Rome would not tolerate an independent and free thinking monastic based church and Ireland was brought into line. Abuses by the church in Ireland, including the virtual slavery of women and girls in the Magdelene "Asylums" are famous and Francis' apostasy and tolerance of priestly sodomy may be kicking over a long sleeping hornets nest.

[crusadersoldier]

Probably what remaining faithful Catholics there are in Ireland remember that Rome said absolutely nothing during the Irish abortion debate.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-burke-irish-catholics-did-not-receive-support-from-rome-in-abortio