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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Not sure whats happening here, did he rents hookers, maybe steal money, some gay party or perhaps more of this pedophile abuse and other evil crap inside the Roman Catholic Church?
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/05/03/pope-francis-guilty-of-
heresy-catholic-scholars-claim-in-historic-letter/

https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/05/01/catholic-clergy-scholars-ac
cuse-pope-francis-of-heresy/

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/im-a-catholic-philosopher-why-i-sig
ned-the-open-letter-accusing-pope-francis-of-heresy

https://catholiccitizens.org/news/86672/catholic-philosopher-why-i-sig
ned-the-open-letter-accusing-pope-francis-of-heresy/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/markshea/2019/05/jimmy-akin-performs-the
-autopsy-on-the-charges-of-heresy-against-the-holy-father.html

https://www.dailywire.com/news/46716/catholic-theologians-clergymen-ac
cuse-pope-francis-paul-bois

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis


In response to criticism from Venezuela's bishops, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro claimed in 2017 that he had the support of Pope Francis. Pope Francis met with the country's bishops in June 2017, and the Venezuelan bishops' conference president stated, "There is no distance between the episcopal conference and the Holy See." In January 2019, 20 former presidents in Latin America wrote a letter to Pope Francis criticizing his Christmas address regarding the ongoing Venezuelan crisis for being too simplistic and for not acknowledging what they believed to be the causes of the suffering of the victims of the crisis.

Pontifical knighthood for abortion rights activist

In 2017, Dutch politician Lilianne Ploumen was appointed as Dame Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great. Ploumen, who has been involved in promoting legislation supporting women's reproductive rights, stated that she believed the honor was given to her in the context of the Dutch state visit to the Vatican in June 2017 in her capacity as Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation. Paloma Garcia-Ovejero, deputy director of the Holy See Press Office, stated that "the honorific of the St. Gregory the Great Pontifical Order that Liliane Ploumen, then Minister for Development received in June 2017, during the visit of the Dutch Royals to the Holy Father, is part of the diplomatic praxis of the exchange of decorations among delegations during official visits between heads of state and government to the Vatican. cannot be by any way considered an endorsement to the pro-abortion and birth control politics advocated by Mrs. Ploumen."

U.S. President Donald Trump

Since 2017, Francis has also been contrasted with US President Donald Trump, elected that year, with some conservative critics drawing comparisons between the two. During the 2016 United States presidential election, Francis said of Trump, "A person who only thinks about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. That is not the gospel." Trump responded, "For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful." Federico Lombardi said that Francis' comments were not "a personal attack, nor an indication of who to vote for".

'Francis is the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, the first to visit the Arabian Peninsula, and the first pope from outside Europe since the Syrian Gregory III, who reigned in the 8th century.'

Since 2016, Francis has faced increasingly open criticism, particularly from theological conservatives, on the question of admitting civilly divorced and remarried Catholics to Communion with the publication of Amoris laetitia, and on the question of the alleged cover-up of clergy sexual abuse.

Pope Francis has admitted that the Church "arrived late" in dealing with sexual abuse cases. Nevertheless, abuse survivors have expressed disappointment in Pope Francis' response to sex abuse in the Church.

In 2015, Francis was criticized for supporting Chilean bishop Juan Barros, who was accused over covering up sex crimes committed against minors. In 2018, Francis acknowledged he had made "grave errors" in judgment about Barros, apologized to the victims and launched a Vatican investigation that resulted in the resignation of Barros and two other Chilean bishops.

In August 2018 Pope Francis apologized for abuses by clergy in the United States and Ireland.

Former papal nuncio Carlo Maria Viganò released an 11-page letter in August 2018 in which he claimed that Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis had been aware of sexual misconduct allegations against former D.C. archbishop Cardinal Theodore McCarrick before he resigned. Viganò called on Francis to resign. Francis acknowledged that he had read Viganò's letter but said that he did not plan to comment on it publicly.

Pope Francis has come under scrutiny in the case of Father Julio Grassi, a priest convicted of child sexual abuse. As Cardinal, Bergoglio commissioned a study that concluded Grassi was innocent, that his victims were lying and that the case against him never should have gone to trial. Despite the study, the Supreme Court of Argentina upheld the conviction. Grassi has been restricted from exercising any public ministry but has not been laicized.

Following the new sexual abuse allegations, Francis' favorability dropped significantly in the United States. In September 2018, only 48% of Americans had a favorable view of Francis

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