Yes and a lot of defections.
Good riddance. Faith must go deeper than the people who are currently in charge. The Catholic faith is more than 2000 years old and will survive this Pope as it survived much worse in the past. The gates of hell shall not prevail against her said the Lord.
I am drafting a letter to the bishop of my diocese who sent me a brochure from the Stewardship and Development Office of the diocese telling him that I am greatly disappointed in the Pope in his address to Congress not mentioning the Lord Jesus Christ, not mentioning the evil of abortion or the good of adoption, not stating that marriage is a sacrament between one man and one woman, etc.
I told him good stewardship requires a steward to withhold time, treasure, and talent from those efforts which are detrimental to the saving of souls.
I have only heard one sermon on the evil of abortion and one on the fact that what is called gay marriage is neither gay nor marriage and is a mental disorder in the three years I have been in this diocese. The same priest who gave both sermons is a retired priest in his eighties.
I hear a lot of pap about saving the environment and other pagan concepts.
When I was growing up, there was a rhetorical question: Is the Pope Catholic!?
This Pope seems to have answered that question in the negative.
could care less...if people are leaving or entering the church because of a single human and not because of God they’re fools...
i laughed at liberals who left the church because of this priest or that Pope...i’d do the same about anyone else..
i’m a practicing Catholic and a conservative...i’ll still practice and go to church but have no trepidation telling people i think this pope is a coward...