[JoeFromSidney]

Sometimes I wonder if the "bad" popes who had mistresses didn't do less damage to the Church than Bergoglio is doing.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"Sometimes I wonder if the "bad" popes who had mistresses didn't do less damage to the Church than Bergoglio is doing."

Oh, absolutely. An old-fashioned corrupt cleric (whether pope, megachurch preacher, or televangelist) who merely gratifies a taste for money, wine, and women (or good-looking guys) may create a scandalous spectacle, but ultimately harms, principally, himself, his own rotted-out soul.

A cleric who is free of the more tawdry "sins of the flesh" but messes with doctrine, can corrupt millions.

Pope Francis is on track to --- in the natural, human sense--- destroy the papacy.

Amazing that he could succeed where Attila the Hun failed.