Here are 5 scary ultra-right wing Catholics who are outraged by the cool Pope
Harmon Leon, AlterNet
26 Jan 2015 at 14:18 ET
Pro-Pope fever has swept the imagination of those who love both Christian principles and progressive thinking. The approval rating is soaring sky-high for the man in the funny hat. Francis has graced the covers of The Advocate and Rolling Stone and was voted Times Man of the Year. Obama even gave PF a shout out in his State of the Union address this week: As His Holiness, Pope Francis, has said, diplomacy is the work of small steps. These small steps have added up to new hope for the future in Cuba. Pope Francis has his own fanzine and smartphone app. The man even tweets!
The Cool Pope has a mission to make the Catholic Church more gay-friendly, acknowledging that this is after all the year 2015. On homosexuality, the Pope quipped: If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?
He also declared economic inequality a social evil, is going to bat to combat climate change and endorsed science (and logic) regarding evolution and the Big Bang theory.
Tentative Republican presidential candidate and practicing Catholic Rick Santorum is not having it. Just this week, Santorum declared in an interview that Its sometimes very difficult to listen to the Pope. Then again, this is coming from a man who once made comments comparing homosexual sex to bestiality and incest.
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