Pope Francis is called as the people's pope because of his humility and friendliness. Do you find it impressive?
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I will go as far as to say, he is less bad than can be expected of a pope.
Appearances can be deceiving. Mother Teresa is a fine example of that.
Yes, certainly.
I did say "...than can be expected of a pope". That really doesn't set the bar very high, now does it. :)
Maybe it is a PR stunt, but his controversial statements, like "If a person is gay and seeks the Lord and has good will, well who am I to judge them?", has been a little amusing. I get the feeling he is a loose cannon and a constant headache for his puppet masters.
Why mother Teresa is an example?
She was horrible. Some of the things she did: withhold pain meds from patients because suffering brought them closer to god, reused needles, sent a great deal of the $ donated to her hospitals to the Vatican bank...the list goes on. Her fame was all just a huge PR job.
Yep, as Cyber is saying, here is a Hitchens video dedicated to Madre Teresa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65JxnUW7Wk4
Yes. I'm still not buying what he's selling, but it just makes just me WANT to like him and his little ecumenical self.
You have to understand that a pope is just what a mascot is for a football team.
He is not the one that makes the decisions, the cardinals are.
They choose a pope, they replace the pope when they want to.
They control what god thinks, wants and says.
When you have this knowledge, does it matter how nice the pope looks?
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Victim blaming on the Charlie Hebdo attacks doesn't make him seem any less than a typical authoritarian arse to me.
From the Guardian
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On the day another cartoonist victim was buried at Père Lachaise cemetery, the pope came as near as dammit to suggesting that Charlie Hebdo had it coming. “One cannot provoke; one cannot insult other people’s faith; one cannot make fun of faith,” he said.
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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/16/pope-francis-free-s...
Pope Francis is the leader (real or nominal) of Roman Catholicism. He is a good Catholic, and appears to be a good man. What more can you expect? By general human standards, he's an authoritarian, but he leads a religion with two millennia of entrenched authoritarian structure, so again, what surprise is there in that?