QOTD: A Fox News Catholic
by digby
And here I thought right wingers believe that religion is sacred:
Pope Francis is undergoing a popularity surge comparable to the way Barack Obama was greeted by the world in 2008. And just as President Obama has been a disappointment for America, Pope Francis will prove a disaster for the Catholic Church.
My fellow Catholics should be suspicious when bastions of anti-Catholicism in the left-wing media are in love with him.
Much is being made of his ‘compassion’ and ‘humility,’ but kissing babies and hugging the sick is nothing new. Every pope in recent memory has done the same, yet only now are the media paying attention. Benedict XVI and John Paul II refused to kowtow to the liberal agenda, and so such displays of tenderness were under-covered.
Francis is beating a retreat for the Catholic Church, and making sure its controversial doctrines are whispered, not yelled – no wonder the New York Times is in love.
I don't know about you but I'm shocked, shocked to see that to conservative Catholics even the pope is only as good as his politics. But then right wing religion is usually just the bludgeon of choice to with which to beat political opponents over the head. It would appear that even Pope Francis is guilty of violating the code of wingnut religious correctness.
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