Guess it is time for me to leave the Catholic Church and look elsewhere. This fish stinks from the head.
I am very disappointed and shocked regarding the Pope.
You're not serious, I think.
My very long time friend, her husband and young children moved to CA years ago. After 24 yrs. of marriage, he took up with a co-worker, divorced her and remarried. Some years later she also remarried to a Catholic man. She and first husband were also Catholic.
My friend and her now husband have applied for annulments to their first marriages.
She "loves Pope Francis" and I do believe she wants to see a change in the Church's teaching on divorce and remarriage.
I can't predict any basic changes in church teachings on divorce and remarriage, abortion, contraceptives, Sunday and Holy Day Mass attendance, yearly Confessions, married priests, women priests, etc.
While I adhere to some of these moral teachings, I have a problem accepting all of them. Maybe organized religion is not for me. I prefer to relate to and trust in God to hear, know, understand and be merciful to me, my loved ones and everyone on earth, and those who have left this world to be in heaven with Him. He is the final Judge.