So what does a faithful Catholic DO now? Seriously, where do you go for redress of this situation? Or do you just sit down, shut up, and smile? This would seem to be a turning point for the Catholic Church, to me. It cannot possibly be business as usual, as daily we see more and more questions concerning this pope.
Oh good grief, Holy Mother Church survived the `Renaissance Popes’ who must have all been of the Medici family, with secret wives, mistresses, children, amassing wealth & instigating wars. Of course, the counter to all that was Martin Luther & before it was all over the Thirty Years War had exterminated most of Germany as millions perished in the debate about the divine nature of the Eucharist.
So a Pontiff who eats in the common refectory, washes the feet of the poor, & shuns many of the trappings of the Papacy, is now the Lenin of the Vatican?
Yes, my memories of the Jesuits who taught was how they argue, argue, argue. But notice how Pope Francis, the liberals’ “third world Pope of the poor” tends to disappoint the Left when his pronouncements fail to overthrow anything in the Roman Canon?
(For those of you in Rio Linda, this is a trick question:) I mean, who elected this guy?
Good question smvoice. The things we are hearing from this pope is NOT the same thing as what was happening with the Medici popes and all of the other bad popes. As bad and as sinful the bad popes were they didn’t say things that were contrary to the Catholic Faith. They weren’t Modernists.