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My Catholic friends will tell me this Pope's activism, his sudden winning of the "Strange New Respect" award from tools like the Guardian somehow fits into the God of Abraham's plan for the Church. Perhaps it does, in the long run. That's way over my pay grade. But selling the same donuts "on the other side of the street," as they say, won't earn new customers. This Pope seems to feel alienating potential converts like me is worth his embracing the Idols of Sciencism.

Does eternal truth even matter to this man? And if you had asked me a few years ago if I was capable of imagining such a time, if I would ever ask whether Truth mattered to a Bishop of Rome, I would have said, no, I couldn't.

I know Truth matters a great deal to Our Savior, and the Holy Spirit is called "the Spirit of Truth." But there is little that is true about the modern phrenology known as "climate change."

I couldn't be more alienated from this Pope if he'd suddenly reversed the Church of Rome's position on Ptolemy's Cosmos.

If any of my Catholic brothers are inclined to say now to me that I "hate the Church," don't bother. That would be a slander. I've been seriously examining the Catholic Catechism in recent months, particularly the matters of transubstantiation and the status of Mary, for example, things that touch upon prayer most especially. This is a huge stumbling block for me, and I don't think I have to remind anyone who has studied Christ and the Gospels what a sore subject stumbling blocks are for Our Lord, nor of their necessity. God's will be done.

I will continue to study the Fathers, etc., without regard for this Pope's "strange new respect" from our enemies in the West, without regard for his populist moves. The Truth will remain.

Thank God for the Bible, and thank God for those believers in ages past who remained zealous for the truth of God's word and His Christ. If all I knew of Catholicism was this Pope, well... it's very discouraging. Not unlike a radical Socialist being elected president.