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[aadler]

Being a Catholic under Pope Francis is like being a soldier under President Obama: we recognize his authority, but he’s wrong about basically everything, and God!, do we need a replacement.

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[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Well put!

[aadler]

I defended the guy for years on the basis of “the press keeps putting their own interpretations (what they want it to mean) on whatever he says,” and “he spent his bishopric opposing liberation theology, so that can’t be what he’s preaching” … but no, he’s a doctrinaire liberal using the Church to advance his real religion, which is LibProg social justice redistributionism (with however much anti-Americanism he feels like tossing in as an appetizer).

We bear up and hope for relief. Which doesn’t mean praying that he’ll die, but does mean praying for a new Pope even though that can’t happen until his death (Benedict XVI’s resignation being the first such in nearly 600 years, it’s not really a likely alternative).

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

It's a tough situation. I suppose the office of the Pope now has the same problem America's Supreme Court does: they became lifetime positions in a period when lifetimes were much shorter.