Pope Francis was history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change.
Change takes time and they’ve been anti-gay for a very, very long time. No sane person thinks a single pope solved all the centuries of repression in 10 years.
What I do know is that the conservative Catholics I personally know thought Pope Francis was “too liberal” and “just saying woke things because that’s what young people like nowadays” and those are both endorsements to my ears.
Especially his attitude on climate change and income inequality and tax avoidance by the wealthy - there is a lot of that in conservative church groups and if their God’s PR representative is telling them to cut that shit out and look after the environment better then great.
None of it was real, it was all PR talk. Go to South America as an openly gay person into a church ABS see how progressive they really are.
Change takes time and they’ve been anti-gay for a very, very long time. No sane person thinks a single pope solved all the centuries of repression in 10 years.
What I do know is that the conservative Catholics I personally know thought Pope Francis was “too liberal” and “just saying woke things because that’s what young people like nowadays” and those are both endorsements to my ears.
Especially his attitude on climate change and income inequality and tax avoidance by the wealthy - there is a lot of that in conservative church groups and if their God’s PR representative is telling them to cut that shit out and look after the environment better then great.