No, you’ve got it backwards. What I’m saying agrees with you: even for all the good things he did, beginning the long process of softening the Church’s stance on things like LGBT+ issues, same-sex couples, divorce, etc, he was still the head of a religious institution that advocates hate and spreads disinformation and protects child molesters and shit. The qualifier is there to show that the standard by which he is being judged in this light is an artificially low one: of all the popes we could’ve had he seems to have been the most inoffensive, but that’s a pretty fucking low bar.
Also I’ve seen lots of Protestant leaders celebrating the end of Roe v Wade and such, but I have not seen any evidence of the involvement of Catholic leadership in such things (not that I’ve looked very hard, admittedly.) Do you happen to have anything I could read for more detail on the subject? I’d like to stay informed.
No, you’ve got it backwards. What I’m saying agrees with you: even for all the good things he did, beginning the long process of softening the Church’s stance on things like LGBT+ issues, same-sex couples, divorce, etc, he was still the head of a religious institution that advocates hate and spreads disinformation and protects child molesters and shit. The qualifier is there to show that the standard by which he is being judged in this light is an artificially low one: of all the popes we could’ve had he seems to have been the most inoffensive, but that’s a pretty fucking low bar.
Also I’ve seen lots of Protestant leaders celebrating the end of Roe v Wade and such, but I have not seen any evidence of the involvement of Catholic leadership in such things (not that I’ve looked very hard, admittedly.) Do you happen to have anything I could read for more detail on the subject? I’d like to stay informed.