[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.

[safeasthebanks]

Kind of like you showing up on any thread evenly remotely related to Catholicism to make the usual ignorant/snarky comments, right sweetie-pie?

A life. Get one. Fast.

(Don't bother responding 'cause I'm not reading it.)

[arthurus]

The mistranslations are real and some are egregious and some are just ignorance of Latin while assuming that because a couple of letters in a long Latin word are the same as in a word in English they are the same word.

[RetiredArmy]

In the woods, with the bears??