[CGASMIA68]

Then some one needs to remind him because he is screwing up big time and just like the protesters across the country diminishing his legitimacy

[Alex Murphy]

Almost from the beginning of his papacy, there has been a lot of nonsense written about Pope Francis. On the Left, there has been much wishful thinking about how the former Cardinal Bergoglio is really a man of progressive sympathies, while on the Right, there is a deep suspicion that the first Jesuit pope is basically a “liberation theologian” who is not a particular fan of capitalism and may in fact be a sneak commie symp. Much of what the pope is said to have said turns out to be either a mistranslation or completely imaginary, the result of having reporters either ignorant of Catholicism or openly hostile to it reporting or commenting on the pope and the Church. So who is he? To quote the old joke, “Is the Pope Catholic?” You bet he is. To look at him any other way is simply wrong.

So in other words, he's being mistranslated again. Either that, or he's imaginary. Either way, you can find him in the woods.

[Mercat]

I sometimes have a hard time understanding Pope Francis but I know that he is Pope for a reason. I’m on my third year as an RCIA team member and people who have been afraid to return to the Church are making an outreach because of this Pope. Just give our RCIA program a chance and it will finish the job that he begins by getting people in the door. Once there, the Holy Spirit will take over and during the seven months we have them, the catechumens will be transformed.

[defconw]

Yep! Been trying to make this point, mostly to no avail.

[Salvation]

**To quote the old joke, “Is the Pope Catholic?” You bet he is. To look at him any other way is simply wrong,**

[kenmcg]

No question he’s a Catholic, a strong socialist, but not anti-communist.

[Terry L Smith]

papal insurgency in American politics warning!!

The one thing i disagree with ol’ Ronald Reagan, was putting an American embassy attached to the Pope’s house in Rome.

I really give a (b)at’s arse what it’s called. Rome is not in charge of America. It was in charge of Europe for a long time. how did THAT work out?

[Raycpa]

If we disagree with Obamas politics we are racist and if we disagree with Popes theology we are anti-Catholic.

[Tired of Taxes]

This article is spot on. The pope is Catholic. He lives in Rome. He’s not a Republican or a Democrat living in the USA. What he says will never fit completely into either the Democrat or Republican mold.

[MtnMan101]

[Dqban22]

In a 1998 book called Dialogues between John Paul II and Fidel Castro, Bergoglio harshly criticized socialism.

But, it seems that Bergoglio have evolved quite remarkably. According to Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, actually, his prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Pope Francis has close ties with liberation theology. This is the same discaterio that once condemned the movement. In the 1980s the CDF under then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger attacked liberation theology as borrowing “from various currents of Marxist thought“.