[Zviadist]

There are some seriously important things in your post and it's wonderful that you've found your niche, but remember that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

Hey...I never claimed to be warm and fuzzy. Besides, the stakes are too high to water down the message.

The main problem most of us have, again, is the attacks on the pope. There have been bad popes in the past and there will be more in the future...He's a street priest and that effects his outlook and modus operendi.

I disagree with your assessment of this pope. He is not a street fighter. He is a serious intellectual, and was one long before he became pope. It is the subject matter of his study and his approach to the subject that is most concerning.

I don't think you would disagree that it is the responsibility of the faithful to defend the faith...even against a pope if he were to stray from recieved Tradition. It has been done in the past and it will be done again. Looking objectively at the actions of this pope, one cannot but wonder whether this resistance is not in order now. Surely you cannot defend the various novelties he has introduced and presided over, not to mention the refusal to clean out the sewer of the American Bishops.

[Desdemona]

I disagree with your assessment of this pope. He is not a street fighter.

I said street PRIEST, not fighter. There's a difference.

He is a serious intellectual, and was one long before he became pope.

Well, of the 20th century anyway.

Surely you cannot defend the various novelties he has introduced and presided over, not to mention the refusal to clean out the sewer of the American Bishops.

I think he's dealing with the bishops as a chessmaster would approach an opponent. Cautiously. What his reasoning is, I'm not sure. What novelties are you talking about? Other than girls as altar servers. I was one of the few people i knew who objected to that one.