Reply #94: Personally, I'm not happy at all [View All]

[mvd]

Yes, I'm a non-practicing Catholic who likes to form some of my own views, but I feel I still qualify for this board. He makes me long for the days of Pope John Paul II, and that's saying something. I am afraid that he'll interfere more in the lives of regular Catholics, as he did in the Presidential election. The guy has even attacked rock music! I'm afraid that his rhetoric on social issues like gay marriage and abortion will be quite Bushian, while not spending as much time on the good things that Catholics stand for. If he's so doctrinal, you'd think this would carry over to things like the death penalty, but I don't know. I feel that he'll restrict free thought in the third world. I'm also alarmed at how he handled the pedophelia scandal (Malloy touched on that tonight.)