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My Grandma, back in Italy, despises him too, but still respects him. She has his picture on her bedside table, nonetheless, because of course he's still the Pop
by camillomiller 9y ago
My Grandma, back in Italy, despises him too, but still respects him. She has his picture on her bedside table, nonetheless, because of course he's still the Pope. Her rationale is simple: the Pope should be a detached quasi-divine figure: from her old Italian woman point of view he's pope-ing wrong. But again, he's still the Pope, so "he must be right".
- b0rsuk 9y agoYour grandma has class. Poles who don't like Francis (i.e. most of them) don't have a photo of him, and don't respect him. When he was on a pilgrimage in Poland, church-related media focused on everything except what he was saying.
- krotton 9y agoI think "most of them" is quite a stretch. There indeed is a faction in Poland despising (or openly opposing) Francis, but from what I've witnessed, they seem to be a (vocal) minority. Anyway, that's from an atheist point of view, so probably not very informed.