What if Francis is a bad Pope, we ask Joe Heshmire next?

Hello and

welcome to Focus, the Catholic faith.

I'm Cy Kelle at your host.

And we get kind of serious this week because people raise serious

questions about whether or not Pope Francis is a bad Pope.

I'll be right up front with you up front.

We're not saying that we think Pope Francis is a bad Pope and we certainly, as a matter of fact,

I'm going to tell you the truth.

A lot of times we have a reputation here at Catholic answers

of being a little bit defensive about the Pope.

So what we decided to do this time is let down our defenses.

Listen to those who are making critiques of the Pope, not people who are just shrieking and being upset on the internet,

but people who are making specific critiques of Pope Francis so that we could get to the question of what are we going

what if what if these people are right what if our defenses of Pope Francis

ultimately don't carry much water and the truth is you know hard truth is, as many people might say today, that Pope Francis is a bad Pope.

What are the implications of that in our own lives and in the life of the church?

So Joe Heshmeyer is the author of Pope Peter, a book that gives the Catholic

view on what a Pope is and as Joe likes to say, it's very important to also say what a Pope isn't.

And so both of those aspects of Joe's understanding of the

papacy come in handy during this episode. I hope you'll enjoy it and I hope you'll

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