I'm a catholic and I despise this pope. He's a bigot. He was a member of the Hitler Youth ffs! And don't give me all that "well he had to" bollocks - aren't holy men meant to be men of substance? That stand up for what they believe in? That are prepared to die for the love of God? He hardly showed himself to be made of mettle then did he? Or perhaps he agreed with the Hitler Youth policies? It would certainly seem so by the crap that comes out of his mouth everytime he opens it.
I'm a catholic in faith only - but in every other sense I cannot stand the way the church has turned a blind eye and even participated in torture, death, discrimination and hatred. It's a religion run by men who are only in love with power.
You get the odd priest who is wonderful. One of them married dh and I and baptised our first, he was fantastic and a man I admired. Another gave dd her first holy communion, an inspirational man who spoke out against many things, a strong man. There are a few of us out there who are fighting back. Who actually love our faith and hate to see it being destroyed by vile and hateful people.
Jesus never judged. He treated women as equally as men. He NEVER spoke out against gays (and there were plenty of them back then too) - Saint Paul did but Saint Paul said a lot of trite about women being below men too - I suppose you devout Pope-lovers would agree with that would you? That a woman should obey her husband and subject herself to him at all times? Oh and don't forget that sex is actually sinful and should only be done for procreational purposes.
My arse that a lot of catholics support him! A lot of catholics would like to see the back of him more like!