But he is not even a Catholic. Most know this already. So he is not the Pope. Especially not mine. But we are told by Christ, not to condemn or judge them or even make fun of them. He is the judge and only He has that power. Always remember it was GOD who allowed that man to be in the Church. It is us who either accepts his teaching or not. If we don't then we are ok. But we can't condemn or judge him. Only Christ has that ability.

@Kenjiro M. Yoshimori

I agree with you Yoshimori, to some extend, but we are called not to look for examples of sanctity and christianity inside the Church

WE ARE CALLED TO BE EXAMPLES OF CHRISTIANITY AND SANCTITY INSIDE THE CHURCH.

We are not to preach a different Gospel that the Lord and his apostles gave us, and we are not also called to give up on sinners as ourselves or worst than ourselves and be the first ones to cast the stone against them.

I will pray for you because your way of thinking is dangerous for you and others around you, that's hate being taught, saints gave their lives for their enemies, and that's talking about creatures of the Lord, you are a creature of the Lord.

You still do not understand the mystery of love and redemption.

I will pray for your salvation, you will need those prayers when you go before the presence of our Lord, and when he shows you who you truly are before him and the kind of Gospel you lived and spread using his Holy name.

Remember

Let others see the love of the Lord through your service, and you are called to be an example of holiness, and not called to look for an example of holiness inside the Holy Catholic Church.

The Lord said to his disciples, do as they say, but not as they do

Probably today he would say

do as I say, disregard what they say or do if they go against my Gospel

but please put more effort on living the Gospel and preaching it through your example, the example you are giving is the worst to follow and it entirely goes against Love, Jesus is God and God is love himself, you are either with God or against God, make your stand before you die and put an effort that if you follow God you persevere till the end, do not cast the first stone.

God bless.

@tearlach Heresy is a line that cannot be crossed. However, Jorge Mario Bergoglio has crossed that line a number of times since March 13, 2013, when he came to the Chair of Peter. He is destroying the True and Authentic Teaching of the Catholic Church with his heretical announcements and writings, his scandalous idol (pachamama) worshipping, his various blasphemies and his associations with, and appointments of godless and pro-abortion people. @Kenjiro M. Yoshimori is defending the True Catholic Church, with all his might, because he loves the only Church Jesus founded.....the one True Faith…. and he cares about the salvation of souls. This is not an activity of hate.....it is one of love of the Catholic Church, love of souls. The Catholic Faith must be defended with vigour….. and to our deaths if necessary!!!

@tearlach get the book, Benedict XVI: Pope "Emeritus" - "The 'always' is also 'forever'" By Estefania Acosta. This book examines all of the potential canonical breaches in the process of Jorge Bergoglio taking the Chair of Peter (these potential breaches are many and every single one of them look to be real breaches of canon laws and Apostolic Constitutions, and each one of which would be enough to, stand alone, invalidate the supposed election of Jorge Bergoglio)......... About the author: Estefania Acosta Ochoa (1989-) is a native of Medellin, Colombia. Master in Law of the University of Medellin (with an honorable mention in her master's thesis in the area of constitutional law), she was for years an official of the State Judicial Power and a university professor, working in the areas of civil and commercial law.
A cradle Catholic, her education took place in an also Catholic environment, making it possible that, years later, the rising professional and material successes, when challenged by a decisive and definitive conversion process, not dissuaded her from using the many talents received, in the first place, for the "Kingdom of God and His Justice", which is, in Ignation terms, to do everything A.M.D.G. This is what we see in her work in defense of the rights of God, the Church and the Papacy.

@Tony M

I understand perfectly, I used to be an atheist and if you read my comments you'll kind of have a tiny idea where I'm coming from. I used to hate all Popes, and used to laugh about Catholic Saints and people who believe in things like that. I thought catholic people were "stupid, irrational, lacking intelligence, etc", while I was an honored student with high grades "A" and a high IQ and surrounded by "smart and famous people", with a scholarship and many others piling up from many renowned universities in the world, believe me, I know what you are talking about.

I read hundreds of books, but when the Lord spoke to me the first thing he asked me was if I was willing to surrender all the human wisdom I acquired throughout my life. Before coming back, I was considered very intelligent and smart by the institutions, and made no mistakes, I could speak about any topic for the most part and people admired that; I said yes to the Lord, and now I make mistakes, I hardly remember things, names, places, etc.

I was not a genius but I was way above the average person, and did not really had to study to pass an exam that had more than 100 questions, related to science.

All that is useless before God, useless.

He looks for those who are simple, poor and humble, not the kind of poverty that accumulates goods in this earth but the kind of people whose heart is poor on covertness, vanity, and other sins.

Even for the Pope Jesus wants YOU to pray and sacrifice and show that you LOVE for you will be judged in love when you die. Read my comments if you will, and I do hope you become a good example of Catholicism instead of living the mediocrity of many who proudly think, feel and call themselves catholic when their example of living the Gospel is that of an anti-christ as the apostles called them.

Do not give up on a priest, never. God bless.

I don't think we should be condemning anyone. But he is not even Catholic. So he can't be our Pope. He has a hatred for all things Holy. Including The Holy Mass and The Holy Catholic Church. A man who said, The Blessed Mother was just a good woman but who sinned. Putting a demon idol in The Church of GOD. Right in front of The Mother of GOD. It took a good Catholic from Austria to return back to Rome when he saw that and to gather up 5 or 6 of them and threw them in the river. Only for them to be returned to The Church, right in front of The Mother of GOD. Do you think he can be forgiven for him turning his back on GOD like that? Amoungst the many other things he has done to attack GOD? I don't think so anymore. Though I still pray for him. That man was allowed to be there at this time in the history of The Catholic Church because it is what we deserve. But that is his only reason for being there. It is up to us to fight him, ignore him and walk away from him to show Christ we are for Him and not a man who hates Him.

@Just me
As I said, the Lord brought me back to Catholicism, I never grew up in the church or knowing its teachings, my parents have never been the type of active Catholics, they could care less about the Pope.

Nobody took me out of atheism, but it was the Lord who did it. My first impression of the Catholic world as a returning Catholic is that it was a hostile jungle full of dangerous beasts (people) ready to eat anyone who went inside of it. I was 23 yrs old back then when I came back, and that's what i thought, I was extremely disappointed, today I'm only sad and feel copassion for those who preach and live a gospel of indifference and hatred.

I was going to leave the Catholic church forever, but Jesus himself asked me if I was also abandoning him, he asked me this question as I was walking back to my house, I cried and I looked at him, and when I saw him, I realized I was not called to look for examples of holiness but to become an example of one.

I do not think, nor feel like I'm a holy person, but I do fight to be one.

Leaving the church because of the bad examples given by those who called themselves "Catholics" and are not, is leaving Jesus.

Our Lord said this to me

"Let them see my love through your service" and he added

"Have patience and mercy for them as I have had it for you"

At that very instant he pronounced that last word I saw a small part of my life and my sins, I saw every single way I offended the Lord and yet he never gave up on me, and never stopped waiting for me and never stopped calling me.

I saw Jesus walking in front of me enveloped in blood and lacerated, deformed because of the lashes and very beat up. The white of his eyes red full with blood, it was a horrible vision, but his eyes looked so full of peace, love and mercy towards me.

I hope you never see that, because that's all our sins doing that to him, he asked me if I was also abandoning him, I cried so much that I did not care about the people looking at me on the streets, and I said to him

NO LORD I WILL NOT ABANDON YOU, FORGIVE ME

This year it's been 29 yrs since I was 23 when the lord himself call me back to him and gave me the gift of his sacraments and his presence in the Holy Eucharistic Host.

I've gone through hell and back because following him has caused a lot of pain but also a lot of joy.

God Bless.

@tearlach I had to edit this. Sorry.

We have a lot in common. And I understand you. I hardly went to Church when I was younger. Or in my teens. But the one thing I do remember is my Father reading me the Bible. And both parents taught us a little bit here and there. But not enough in my eyes. I am not complaining. GOD gives us our parents and siblings for a reason. And I love them and appreciate them all. I had to stay home and watch the smaller ones while they went to Church.

I left the Church (but not my love for Christ or my faith) after I graduated back in 71. It had to do with a bad experience I had twice. It had nothing to actually do with people. Though one person helped add to it. But later on, He was constantly calling me back. How can I ignore that? I couldn't and I am very happy I listened.

What Our Lord showed you, I believe only Saints have seen. So that was a very beautiful Blessing He gave you. It shows that He truly does not want to lose you at all. And He will do what He must to keep you with him. Thank GOD for His Love and Mercy!

We can't do a thing about all the evil in our Church. What we must and should do is avoid it all and just pray for them. What can we do about this mess? Absolutely nothing at all. Pray for them and ourselves and everyone else. That's what we should and need to do.

Our Lord at the Last Supper told His Apostles...........

"A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another."

And that is what we should do. Because it is love that will get us into Heaven faster than anything else. Love! Love for Our Lord. And love for one another. Nothing should get in our way of those things. It can be hard. But it is what He asked of all of us. Our Faith is not an easy one to live. But It can be if we follow Our Lord. And to fill our souls with all good and Holy things. Not with the scandals and other things that do nothing for us. They certain won't get us into Heaven. And we will not take it with us either. Who would want to anyhow?

It is not because of the people we are Catholics. But because of Our Lord. His Love and His Mercy for us all. In other words we can't let any of them get to us. To bring us down to their level. Our focus should be on Christ at all times.

GOD Bless you and keep you strong.

@Just me

Thanks for your comments, not everyone being baptized Catholics are truly Catholics, I'm fighting every day to be one, and asking the Lord to give me the grace to love him and to persevere.

I thank the Lord for such a big blessing to be born and baptized Catholic and I thank the Lord for allowing me to be his mule to bring his love and presence to other people who have left the church, who are atheist or who are protestants.

Whoever has come to the Catholic church is thanks and only thank to our Lord Jesus not to the mule.

They find the same kind of hostile environment and they often times ask me for advice, I always tell them they are called to repair and to intercede through their prayers, fasting, sacrifices, and example for those who being always Catholics and who've never left the Catholic church not even once and are the worst examples to follow.

I thank our Lord for giving me the words to calm down their interior tempests and storms that Catholic people leave them.

The Lord asked me to evangelized those inside the Church, that was many years after returning, after his call.

I did not really want to, and I did not know where, making a long story short, the Lord opened the doors for me to do that, but first I had to go through a lot of pain, suffering and persecution. I never asked anyone in the church to allow me to do this, nor I shared my experience to anyone, today I've only shared a bit to some people, not more than 10 in total, 4 being priests, not to get any kind of gratification or any kind of approval, on the contrary, to have them evaluate me and guide me, but their answer is pretty much the same, so I stopped sharing it.

That Catholic church was simple PAGAN, the worst I could go to, the lord had placed me inside the womb of a traditional Catholic church a year after my return since I had gone into that hostile jungle I mentioned in my previous comment.

So much disrespect for the temple and the Lord present in the tabernacle, the Holy Spirit was the one who catechist me in regards to impiety, and sacrilege.

Because the church was full of charismatic people who claimed to received messages and prophecies, etc. It was a very wild environment and very confusing, I just did not feel not think that what they were doing was right, even though I was so ignorant about religion, I have always been a decorated student full of awards and scholarships by the school with a successful career, but an atheist.

I did not believe in God and I rejected people who spoke or tried to speak about God, I took them as being ignorant, and weak among other horrible things. I was among "smart" people, I had a friend from the NASA who was one of the Doctors in charge of checking the psychological health of the astronauts.

I was surrounded by successful and famous people, but from there JESUS CALLED ME, IT WAS HIM, HE IS REAL, AND HE IS PRESENT EVERYWHERE ESPECIALLY IN THE HOLY EUCHARIST.

Today I cry a lot for our church, and for all of us, because people abuse God's mercy, I tell them

Walk in the justice of the Lord so you can find at the end of your life his mercy, but if you walk under the mercy of the Lord throughout your life, at the end you will find his justice.

People have no idea about what sin is, nor about in how many ways we offend our Lord, and how terrible it is what they say about their neighbor, even worst when we talk about priests or the Pope.

I do not have to follow nor agree anything oppose to the gospel, that's why our Lord and our Lady always encourage us to soak ourselves s with the Bible, and the examples of the saints.

And to follow the message our Lady gave at Fatima.

I've gone through hell and back literally, I've lost most of the things I had before following Jesus, I'm in poor health, terminally ill, but still going to where the Lord wants me to go. I am poor, but still the Lord provides so I can donate and help others in other parts, and giving a pearl as a testimony of Jesus' love for us, and that he is with all of us, I told our Lord one day that I would very much like to give a donation, but my wallet and pockets were empty and I had no money. I lost my bank accounts because I had no income so I got no savings or checking account, I lost all that as well. I'm penniless.

Whatever money I make I invest to help other people so I'm always without a penny.

So I just had that thought, that I wished I had some money to send it to a priest who is in charge of a seminar. I just thought that as soon as I could get a job I would send the money to the priest.

I grabbed my wallet that had been empty for many days, and a kind lady brought me some food so I had something to eat.

And when I opened the wallet there was a 100 dollar bill.

I could not believe my eyes, and the sight. Tears rolled down my eyes, and my heart was crying of joy and thanks to our Lord.

Like a child; I run to see a person who could send that money to the priest.

I have so many testimonies like this, and those people I've met, some of whom have seen these miracles happening, and also who have received miracles from our Lord and Lady; they understand now that we do nothing talking about all the bad things happening inside the church, but we do more striving to be Holy, praying, fasting, sacrificing, offering the communion, praying the rosary and repairing for the faults of our brethren in Jesus and also for those of the priests.

They understand now, they did not understand before they were all like Yoshimori and other who leave those comments.

If people started leaving the Gospel and striving to be an example to to others then they would witness the beatitudes in this life already as our Lord says in Mat 5.

God bless.

@forward---This is true. I've been to Italy, and can swear that not only do people not care about whatever Pope Francis says, but they actually hate him and his agenda too. What turned them off about him was his constant talking about migrants, migrants, migrants. And the poor. And how bad Catholics are and how bad the Latin Mass and tradition is. What you said "Who cares about his words?"...is exactly what they think.....and huge parts of the Church in general thinks the same. Bergoglio would do the Church a favor if he would just give up and quit.