Yeah, I get a feeling this is a bit like a liberal setting up an imaginary argument with a conservative, but as we read the conservative arguments, they are a caricature of what a conservative would really ask.
My wife was raised Catholic and her whole family is still catholic. Some of them still go to mass every day. They are an interesting group, spiritually. We disagree with them on a couple of key points but, hey, I disagree with most protestants on a key point (I believe the lost are annihilated and do not suffer for eternity).
So I care about this pope thing as much as I care about shakeups in any other church that is not the one I go to: Not really my business.
ditto including the part about the wife being raised catholic. I think the whole Pope blow-up is interesting but I take no pleasure in their misfortune.
If the damned are annihilated, then they don’t KNOW when their suffering stops—which is exactly like suffering for eternity.