At his core, Francis could not care less about the religious preferences of Latin Americans or anyone else. Let’s just say he is no St. Paul.
I’m no expert, but isn’t the Pope selected by his peers? Thats not encouraging when looking at the Catholic Church and Francis.
That’s the thing: he talks as if he doesn’t regard conservatives, let alone evangelicals, as Christians at all, but he also doesn’t seem concerned that tens of millions of Catholics are going evangelical.
My attitude is that a religious evangelical is better than someone who is Catholic merely culturally, so I’m much more concerned about the missed opportunity to reclaim European Christendom. But Francis’ equation that Christianity means communism/statism/socialism is losing Christians in every direction: socialist-leaning Catholics (there are some) are being taugh that their socialism is more important than Catholicism, conservative Catholics are being told Pope Francis doesn’t want them, and marginally Christian Catholics are looking elsewhere to find Christ.
If Satan himself ran the Catholic church, he’d do it exactly the way Pope Francis does. I am quite confident that one day, he will be declared an antipope.