There’s an old saying, “Is the Pope Catholic?” That used to describe something obviously true, but a lot of Catholics are starting to ask it seriously about Pope Francis. He’s recently been voicing support for a range of leftwing social issues, from climate change to same-sex marriage, even when they directly contradict the Bible and church teachings. Catholics are starting to notice and speak up about it.

For instance, a new Pew Research poll found that “shockingly few US Catholics” support the Pope’s radical stance on the “climate crisis,” with his calls to end fossil fuels, “fracking for oil and gas extraction, unchecked mega-mining projects, and intensive animal farming.” (FYI: do you know what requires extremely dirty and destructive mega-mining projects? Obtaining minerals for electric car batteries, which also need fossil fuel-fired power plants to charge them.) Pew found that only 44% of US Catholics believe the Earth is warming “mostly due to human activity.” 29% believe it’s warming due to natural processes, while 13% say there’s no solid evidence that it’s warming at all. This is definitely a field in which there’s not much support for the doctrine of Papal infallibility.

https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2023/09/29/liberals-aghast-shockingly-few-u-s-catholics-support-pope-francis-on-climate-change/

FYI, since you probably won’t see it anywhere else, that linked story includes information about the World Climate Declaration, issued in August and signed by over 1600 climate experts, including two Nobel Prize winners. It states that computer climate models have proven completely unreliable (which proves that we are far from understanding climate change), CO2 is not a pollutant, climate change has not increased natural disasters, and we’re still in a natural warming cycle following the end of the Little Ice Age in 1850. I’m sure President Biden disagrees, and he might actually remember 1850.

Other high church officials have also been baffled by some of the Pope’s recent blurring of church and politics. So much so that five concerned Cardinals sent a set of questions known as “dubia” to the Pope seeking clarification of his stances on issues such as same-sex marriage, female priests and “the claim that we should reinterpret divine revelation according to the cultural and anthropological changes in vogue.” That could sum up a lot of recent questionable statements from the Pope.

This link has the questions and the Pope’s answers, but I warn you that they don’t exactly clear up the issues. Maybe they should’ve asked him, “Is the Pope Catholic?”

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255539/read-pope-francis-response-to-the-dubia-presented-to-him-by-5-cardinals