I am Catholic and a Knight, which requires me to support the Pope. I am actually supporting the Pope by not supporting his scientific conclusion in hopes of not embarrassing the Church. I don’t want him to be known in history as Pope Watermelon I, because his flock will have suffered as a result.
Best thing for the K of C. Don’t get too involved either supporting or opposing, because you don’t want the new Vatican authorities to shut you down. You’ll know when the time is right. And it will happen, because this can’t go on.
The Knights I know here are disturbed by Francis and his statements but nobody knows what to do, since once upon a time, supporting the Pope was a guarantee of orthodoxy. Not anymore. Also, a lot of Knights and their wives are involved in lay marriage counseling, etc., and they’re particularly stressed.
In the long run, I think that the Knights and those like them will save the Church.
I am Catholic and a Knight, which requires me to support the Pope.
Neither of those two requires you to support an obviously errant pope...in fact, if you believe the pope to be preaching error, it’s your duty to acknowledge that and work against it...
I am actually supporting the Pope by not supporting his scientific conclusion in hopes of not embarrassing the Church.
...which it seems you are doing...