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I think it is highly proper to call this Pope unorthodox. Praying with animists to the Great Thumb is highly unorthodox. It is not formally heretical, perhaps, but it is not in conformity with traditional Catholic thinking either. It is indeed unorthodox for a pontiff to behave this way--and shocking--no matter how the Vatican bureaucracy tries to spin such actions afterwards. The problem this Pope poses is that no Catholic in his heart wants to even think about the evidence: that the man at the very top frequently does act--and teach--in ways that do not conform to traditional Catholic doctrine of long standing. His position on capital punishment, for instance, is highly unorthodox and breaks with long-held Catholic doctrine. Justice Scalia has weighed in on this not too long ago. The Pope's position can't be reconciled with past teachings of past popes or even with Scripture. It is, in a word, unorthodox.

The Pope is not unorthodox or heretical. You don't have a leg to stand on. You are just maliciously twisting words and using them incorrectly in a malicious way to slander a good person and to cause dissension in the Church for no good reason. It demonstrates very ill will and is an insult to all who have died for the Catholic faith for you to insult the Holy Father this way. For shame!

UNORTHODOX=HERETICAL! That is the plain sense of the words. You sir are a Marxist casuist with no sense of truth or decency. You manipulate language to serve your anti-Papal agenda. That is precisely what Marx and Lenin and the Modernists and Liberation Theologians did. You have apparently learned at their school.

The Pope is neither unorthodox nor heretical in any way shape or form. You have roved nothing. Your unremitting hostility to the Pope and the Catholic Church and your devious methods of subverting language are absolutely despicable.