It is if you are hated for it. The more you live like Him and become like Him, being a light and spreading the Gospel, bringing hope to the lost, the more you are a target of Satan. Can’t win the battles without armor, so I would have to agree with the Pope. If that is what he meant.
Must be dangerous if people are dying for not renouncing the Name which will bring every knee to the ground.
So you agree with the pope that having a personal relationship with Yeshua is wrong?