The Secret Pope Francis Haters

www.thedailybeast.com ^ | 3/11/14 | Barbie Latza Nadeau

[Biggirl]

On the one year anniversary of the pope’s election, Francis is the darling of the globe—but he does have his critics from liberals and reformers to hard-core Catholics.

[Biggirl]

God Bless Pope Francis one year later.

[wideawake]

Posting about the secret ones on a forum full of the open ones?

[SevenofNine]

Don’t hate the player that number one rule you learn on the street of SO CAL LOL!

I think conservaties just don’t get it

[Buckeye McFrog]

I was gonna say, they aren’t so secret in the circles I travel.

[verga]

Posting about the secret ones on a forum full of the open ones?

Nailed it. H8ers gotta H8.

[Alex Murphy]

Nailed it. H8ers gotta H8.

Birds gotta swim. Fish hafta fly.

[Salvation]

The trads and the SSPX are his enemies in my opinion.

[Revolting cat!]

In before secret pope haters!

[sasportas]

This Pope’s admirers are:
1. Papists,
2. Marxists.

[Jeff Chandler]

It might seem wrong to hate the Pope, but then who am I to judge?

[sitetest]

Dear wideawake,

At least among Catholics, I see few people here who might be described as hating the pope. Many of us are not wholly uncritical, but it's one thing to criticize the words and deeds of someone and another thing to hate him.

There are, of course, the Usual [non-Catholic] Suspects, but they'd hate the pope even if Jesus came down in front of them and said the pope's his main guy.

sitetest

[boatbums]

The trads and the SSPX are his enemies in my opinion.

How refreshing! A thread that attacks Catholics BY Catholics.

[Gamecock]

How refreshing! A thread that attacks Catholics BY Catholics.

[Gamecock]

...even if Jesus came down in front of them and said the pope's his main guy.

Which will never, ever happen.

Ever.

[Arthur McGowan]

...one year anniversary...

A story in TIME opened with the same specimen of illiteracy.

[ebb tide]

The trads and the SSPX are his enemies in my opinion.

It's the opposite in my opinion. Francis has publicly identified his enemies, and they are not Jews, schismatics, heretic, nor the blood- thirsty muslims, nor homos.

His only enemies are, as you call them, "trads", or the rosary counters, the neo-pelagians, etc.

[BipolarBob]

but they'd hate the pope even if Jesus came down in front of them and said the pope's his main guy.

This underscores the difference between Catholics and Protestants. Protestants would never posit that scenario. The Pope should be kneeling down and say Jesus is his main Man.

[wideawake]

You're absolutely right.

But there are sedevacantist anti-Catholic Protestants here as well as the more common variety of anti-Catholic Protestants.

Luckily there are also many Protestants here who take the Beatitudes seriously as well.