[NKP_Vet]

You like him because he acts like a Protestant who hates Catholics.

[metmom]

Is that an attempt at mind reading or jsut smearing another’s character?

Either way, you don’t know that and you guessed wrong, again.

So what gives you the authority to decide that the pope is not Catholic, or anyone else for that matter?

Ironically, if one of us non-Catholics made that comment, we’d be shredded for making such a judgment, and we’d have people quoting Matt 7:1 at us.

And yet, there you sit and do the same and it’s OK. Why? I guess it depends on the person doing it, eh?

[metmom]

I really don’t give a rip about what the pope has to say.

I has no effect on my life as he has no authority over me.

He’s the head of the Roman Catholic church, not any church I’ve ever affiliated with.

Besides, apparently many Catholic love him. My sister lives in WNY and she told me all the Catholic she knows love the guy to pieces.

Pope Francis Is Beloved. His Papacy Might Be a Disaster.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/opinion/pope-francis-vatican-disaster.html

But then again, I would expect him to be loved by liberal Catholics, of which there are many.

I can count on one hand the number of real life conservative Catholics I’ve ever met in my whole life.

[Elsie]

You like him because he acts like a Protestant who hates Catholics.

Sorry you're taking it so personal.

The only way I'd hate YOU is if you'll be coming up with extra biblical stuff like Rome has done for centuries.

[Elsie]

There is my HATE: of the ‘sticks and stones’ variety;

and then there is Roman LOVE; of the ‘Break their bones’ variety.