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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So to those who say he’s a liberal, what about this?

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/08/pope-robert-prevost-lgbt/[/quote]

Liberal in the Catholic Church still means pretty right wing on many issues.

The child sexual abuse scandal should have toppled the whole thing.  It's disgusting and egregious they try to lecture ANYONE about how to live a pious life while harboring such villains.  Pass on all of it.[/quote]

Yes, ex-Catholic here and this is the truth. There's no such thing as a "liberal" pope because there's not a single Cardinal who could get voted pope while supporting gay marriage, abortion rights, women as priests, or a true reckoning within the church on the sex abuse scandals (plural, there were many, some ongoing).

Pope Francis was not liberal.

However, Francis was kind and welcoming and believed the church needed to be more open minded to *people* if not regarding certain behavior. That made Francis a friend to people who care about the poor, who believe all humans deserve love and kindness.

I am not Catholic anymore and I don't agree with the church, but if Pope Leo is, like Francis, kind and truly loves all people regardless of whether he agrees with them, he will be a better pope than many alternatives. If you aren't Catholic (or if you are Catholic but oppose the church's position on these issues), that's a win even if he is yes, a very conservative person compared to, say, me.[/quote]

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