I grew up in the Roman Catholic system. There are many things they want you to believe, and I disagree. This pope, as every pope before him, were selected by a handful of men. And those men are just as political as the folks in Washington, they are more adept at keeping it behind closed doors and not in the face of the general population by pushing their agenda publicly or in the media.
Pope Francis should have stayed in his lane and worried about the souls of his flock. From my perspective, his chastising the US for not having open borders, my response to that is, when Rome allows 20 million illegal invaders into their space, then they can say something. Otherwise, they are meddling where they are not welcome.
The Vatican has too many black stains on its own reputation to dare open their mouth about what happens in the USA. Helping Nazis escape Europe for countries like Argentina, the massive global abuse of innocent young children by priests and the cover up efforts by those in the hierarchy, etc. They should focus on their own ongoing failures and criminal behavior.
After seeing the movie Spotlight in the theater, and talking to the couple behind me after the movie ended, made for a lifelong memory of abuse. When I stood and looked back, the husband of said couple clearly had tears rolling down his face. We struck up a conversation, and he informed me he was abused repeatedly by a priest when he was a young boy. The movie pointed out there have been over 250,000 children in the USA sexually assaulted by priests. To me, that is a shocking number.
I was fortunate and did not have to deal with that abuse growing up. The priests I knew were all good men. But when you consider the reverence priests are held in by members of the church, the abuse they undertake makes it that much worse in my opinion.
