Yes, I like Pope Francis. Sue me

[Rozlee]

70. Hopefully, he'll stay around for many decades to appoint younger, more progressive

cardinals as those conservative old-school dinosaurs die off. Francis is a work in progress for the Church. As many posters have noted, he's not bringing the Church into the 21st century with his antiquated views on women's rights and gay rights. I became an atheist originally because I questioned much of the Church orthodoxy and it would be good if it kept up with science to act as a foil to the evangelical right anti-science fundamentalism. Maybe someday in the future, a young cardinal will rise to be Pope that will do more than pay lip service to modern justice; that will say that not only can women serve as priests, but that so can gay women. That will lift the ban on all reproductive choice, even abortion. That will declare that...oh, hell, I was getting carried away. I almost said that someday, we might even have our first Muslim pope.