Iโm not sure Pope Francis is the most Catholic of Catholic popes. Iโm certain many previous popes would have excommunicated him by now.
I guess it boils down to:
- Does the current pope dictate Godโs actions? Especially when the current popeโs dictates differ so radically from the pope two generations ago?
- Is the Catholic God that mercurial? A few centuries ago, youโd be tortured into confessing to atheism and then burnt on a stake, but now itโs A-Okay and you can go to heaven as long as you had good intentions?
Iโm sure thereโs a 3 and 4, but honestly I feel like there would be some Benedictine and Jesuit monks in here debating the finer points.
The Pope is Godโs voice in Earth; thatโs the dogma, I guess. But itโs hard to reconcile the messages of Francis and Paul VI.
