Well, the point in this case is that the Church had an established position on the matter, and this Pope came up with another one and tried to impose it. The job of a pope isn’t to create novel doctrine or throw out ones he doesn’t like, but simply to protect the existing ones as handed down to him.
Neither this pope nor Francis has done that, but both have spoken from the Chair of Peter to promote a position in conflict with the established teaching of the Church. Francis knows that this is not okay, and that’s why he won’t answer the dubia, because if he did there’d be no denying that he’s a heretic.
at the risk of scandalizing my dearly departed Irish relatives, I must submit the following:
THIS pope Francis is a phony, a fourflusher and an imposter to the seat of St. Peter. I live for the moment he is gone. in my opinion, he is even far worse than Obama.
And no one could ever think THAT possible.
He may have been inspired to tell what God revealed to him and the Church refused to hear it is another possibility.