A lot my of pope “sympathsizer friends” love the fact that he lives in very frugal surroundings eschewing “papal trappings”. i don’t endorse the papacy at all I have a problem with the entire catholic church on it’s quest to send out messages not only to the US and other countries that the US is the LAND OF THE FREE & EASY
About your comment:
Francis is an idiot.
The Catholic Church is far from “one of the wealthiest organizations in the world.” Especially if you were to divide the Church’s money and property among the one billion Catholics in the world, and if you consider how much of that “wealth” consists of schools and hospitals that serve the poor.