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His “reforms” which resulted in eliminating the Tridentine Mass, ripping out altar rails, turning altars around to face the people instead of God, removing statues of saints, declaring long established saints as non-persons, etc., resulted, I believe, in more of a loss of Catholics from the Church than were gained.

I think the Catholic Church GAINED adherents under John Paul and Benedict because they represented and reinforced traditional Christian beliefs: anti-abortionism, sanctity of marriage, rejection of homosexuality, etc, etc. All things which were abandoned by “traditional” Protestantism at that time.

I think the current Pope is a Marxist menace - a dilusional product of “liberation theology”, who will, in the long run, irreparably damage the Catholic Church and Christianity as whole which has always looked to the Catholic Church to help formulate a consensus on group morality.