[irishjuggler]

You folks are right. He is likely the worst pope ever. There have been other bad popes who were personally quite sinful — undoubtedly much more morally compromised personally than Francis, but he’s the first pope who has come into the job and covertly and overly attempted to jettison perennial Church teachings that he personally dislikes. He’s the first pope who see it as his job not to preserve and promote Church teachings but rather to junk them. Sexual morality, the death penalty, marriage indissolubility — he views Church teachings in many areas as hopelessly outdated, disagreeable, pharisaical and inconsistent with the merciful Jesus of the Gospel, and, as such, he believes that it’s his job to assign said teachings to the ash heap of history. It’s truly unprecedented. There has never been a pope like this before.

[Slyfox]

Frankie is the ever first pope to not answer a dubia.

[Mrs. Don-o]

He makes me disoriented. It's like feeling solid ground turn into quicksand under my feet. Jesus is my Rock and --- I can see this was prophesized in Scripture --- this treacherous pope is not a "Peter" but a stumbling-stone.

These are surreal days.

We shall see what Christ our Savior will do to rescue us *this* time.

As so many times before, I suppose we shall see more suffering, much more suffering, and great saints.

WE should be fasting. Really.