Okay, I shamelessly got your attention. I now direct that attention to my real question: "Is the Pope Catholic?"
An article at CNSNews.com raises serious questions about his commitment to the Roman Catholic faith. It reports in an interview Pope Francis repudiates material in the catechism concerning the existence of Hell and the punishment of unrepentant sinners' souls.
I believe a substantial argument can be made that Francis is the first out-of-the-closet agnostic Pope. I began to write "atheist" and changed it to agnostic as that word choice reflects an important difference.
An atheist believes there truly is no god while an agnostic says he (or she) doesn't know whether there is a god and isn't much interested either in the question or its answer. There is much in the public statements of Pope Francis which suggests he doesn't much care about whether there is a god or what demands that god makes upon humans.
Pope Francis appears to be much more interested in the penumbrae of liberation theology. That is, in attempts to create something more heavenly (or less hellish) here on Earth in our lifetime, via a variety of kumbaya socialist nostrums. These may have been hot stuff in the barrios of Argentina against a background of Evita-worshipping Peronism, they don't survive scrutiny on the world stage.
