Yet, when one RC (?) makes these anto-pope posts....crickets.
IIRC metmom, and many others on these forums, have noted one of their reasons for leaving Rome was their study of the Bible and how what Rome was teaching differed from the Bible.
Rome claims they follow Scripture but when an honest appraisal of their claims is made in relation to Scripture those claims are found lacking.
That is EXACTLY what happened when Francis was first elected and installed as pope.
He was saying the most off the wall stuff and we were warning Catholics about it and the outcry was great. We were anti-Catholic, Catholic bashing, Haters, etc. the pope was misinterpreted, misquoted, misunderstood, the news source was not reliable or reporting accurately, he was taken out of context, yada, yada, yada.
Look at the change now. Catholics are doing the most pope bashing of anyone, and still if WE criticize him or the magisterium which installed him, we're still haters, bashers, and antis. We're being condemned for doing the very thing Catholics allow for themselves.
They don't recognize his authority as valid and refuse to submit to it, but expect us to do (submit to the authority of Catholicism and the pope) what they themselves are unwilling to do.