40 years ago, most Catholics, if the pope declared the sky was green and grass was blue...most Catholics would declare the rest of us as heretics for saying anything against the pope. How things have changed.
At least in America, the pope is not as politically swaying as he once was. I am not sure how that happened. I suspect it aas when the pope and cardinals stood against Ronald Reagan and later when they decried our actions in Afghanistan, and GWBush told them to go fly a kite because we were killing Osama.
Where do you get off saying that? I’ve been a Catholic for 40 years - my family has been Catholic for 200 years - and none of them were sheep. I get so sick of the anti-Catholicism on FR. It is mindless and endless.