Pope Francis Forgets

[chevyontheriver]

I remember clearly when he was first elected he acted like a populist. Getting out of the limo and talking to folks, calling people randomly from the phone book and saying, Hi, this is the pope, reaching out to Ken Copeland, embracing that guy with the head deformity, etc. Everyone was thrilled about it. Then I began to hear of him locking out conservatives from a climate change conference - didn't even allow them to audit, let alone speak; exiling Burke, etc. I couldn't reconcile the two behaviors, and still really can't. His pronouncements seem to have gotten only more consistently left-wing over the years.

Those were thrilling days, the first year of Francis being pope.