[Cry if I Wanna]

There sure seems to be a lot of FR folks who don't like this pope. Are any Freepers pro-Pope Francis? I'm neutral (not a Catholic) but he seems nice enough. I do like his efforts to focus on the poor. I read a story in our local newspaper how the bishop in our area lives alone in a three story mansion in the nicest area. That seems extravagant.

[defconw]

There are people on here that will post anything that says Catholic or Francis. I am beginning to think most don't even bother to read what they post.

There is a treasure trove of information available, but here you get blogs and "news" sources that would be laughed off in any other forum on Free Republic.

[Slambat]

“I do like his efforts to focus on the poor.”

That’s what all deviant oppressors seem to do. Name one who didn’t?

[NorthMountain]

Are any Freepers pro-Pope Francis? I'm neutral

Likewise ... for the simple reason that >90% of what I "know" about Pope Francis comes through the evil satan-worshipers in Big Media.

I don't trust them to tell the truth. Quite the contrary, in fact. They lie about 0bama, mohammedans, abortion, gun control, gun owners, taxes, government spending, the environment, the military, Clinton (either one), Bush (either one) ... in fact, regarding anything that I have any sort of personal or professional expertise on ... Big Media reporting is reliably screwed up beyond recognition.

And I'm supposed to trust them when they report on something I know less about, like the Pope????

Hell NO!

[Excellence]

I read a story in our local newspaper how the bishop in our area lives alone in a three story mansion in the nicest area.

Maybe at night he's alone, but during the day the "mansion" is a very busy office filled with people and a storage repository for extensive records of baptisms, confirmations, and marriages from several parishes. But it sounds scandalous to say the bishop lives in a mansion, so that's what they print.

[Capt. Tom]

There sure seems to be a lot of FR folks who don't like this pope.

There are a lot of what Catholics would consider heretics (protestants) on this forum so that is to be expected.

My beef with this Pope is he is a socialist, therefore not in favor of free enterprise,and other Americanisms.

Also he seems to be clueless about the threat of Islam, even though he certainly knows about Christians being slaughtered around the world by Muslims who follow their religion as written in the Koran and Hadiths.

Catholics will try to defend this Pope, but that will get harder as time goes on. It will be like Americans trying to defend Obama once a track record is established.

Pope Franis will be to the Catholic Church, what Obama is to America. -Tom