I'm sure one can defend Pope Francis without insulting non-Catholic Christians! As a Southern Baptist, I believe all Bible-based doctrines and I do my best to obey all Ten Commandments. Only a bigoted person would automatically assume that my beliefs and respect for the Ten Commandments as given to Moses by God himself, make me any less of a Christian.
The Roman Catholic church is always one conclave away from going the way of the Anglicans and the idea that the Holy Spirit would never let that happen is pure superstition.
And if a future Pope embraces, say, Homosexual marriage what can the faithful do but accept and embrace it too.
Whereas we Protestant have the freedom to abandon our rotting denominations and move to a Spirit filled church.
Could be that, for Pat, all protestants are essentially Anglicans. That would go a long way to explain the ‘tude. The evidence I will site is that Buchanan quotes Belloc and Chesterton in his writing. Both are Catholics living in England. Then Buchanan prattles on about Anglicans and Episcopalians, a political construct of Henry VIII, as if this represented all protestants or the logical conclusion of all such “folly”.
A few years ago I found out that the Archbishop of Canterbury had to be approved by 10 Downing Street. Blaire was PM at the time, who later converted. Strange bedfellows, to say the least.
The NappyOne
As a Catholic who respects your Christian faith as well, please accept, apropos of Buchanan, my apologies.