Is there a right way to disagree with the Pope?

Joe Hechmeyer, next.

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Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers Podcast

for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith.

I'm Psy Kellett, your host, and poor Joe Hechmeyer.

He wrote the book, Pope Peter.

So we come to him whenever we have a question

that might have a negative connotation towards the Pope.

And if we have to ask, is the Pope a bad Pope?

That kind of thing, we make Joe answer that question,

and he's kind enough to come in and do it.

And this time we just wanted to know about disagreeing

with the Pope, because a lot of people

are disagreeing with the Pope these days.

There's no reason for us to avoid it,

or elide it, the Pope is a lightning rod.

And when he speaks, lightning strikes,

especially when he does so on an airplane,

that kind of situation, or maybe in an interview,

we often, the lightning will strike,

and we end up having to figure out,

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