[grumpygresh]

Do you actually think that pope f. is doing a good job defending the faith?

There have been some bad popes in the past and pope f. is just another bad one. He’s certainly no John Paul 2.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I've got some really, really serious concerns about Pope Francis (that's capital "P" and capital "F"). I think we all have to pray and --- I almost hesitate to say it --- fast, because he's at the vortex of a whole lot of very dangerous forces.

However we play right into the Devil's game when we magnify every foot-fault and verbal gaffe, and ignore the real good which he upholds. Ever notice, for example, how the Gay propagandists (like the Advocate) and the Tabloid Trads so often take the same line? ("He's pro-faggotry, yes he is, oh yes he is! 'Who am I to judge' etc. etc." --- it's bad enough to see it on gay guys' T-shirts, but it gets rubber-stamped by FReepers on every papal thread.)

So Satan gets a hundred-fold replication and a thousand-fold amplification of bad impacts, at no extra charge, thanks to "us."

And then the good that Pope Francis does is simply silenced, as if it didn't happen. For instance, near the start of his pontificate, it's Francis who said that the Gay "Lobby," specifically, is an example of a "current of corruption"--- "Pope Bemoans Gay Lobby" (LINK)

...and then that disappears and you never hear another word about it. Then you've got what should have been a huge diplomatic incident:

Pope Francis 'refuses' gay French ambassador

... and it falls into the Media Memory Hole and nobody even knows how it ended up.

But FReepers will tell you that if he hugs some random sinner he's proclaimed their sins to be angelic virtues, and canonized them.

Very hard to discern what's really happening in an atmosphere so thick with deception.