Popes are teachers, and a teacher whose teaching is ambiguous is a bad teacher: a teacher with a forked tongue.
Confusion is from the devil, and Pope Francis has set himself up as a spontaneous buffoon who privately claims to be completely on board with all of the Catholic dogma and morality, but says that he does not need to dwell on those divisive points! Meanwhile he has so far done very little to promote the Catholic faith and has actually been working at clearing the Vatican of the most brilliant loyally Catholic minds. By their fruits you shall know them! The key to understanding the Papacy of Francis is to see his appointments and the groups he chooses to discipline and so far his hammer is quite consistently against those who are for the glory of God and the exaltation of Holy Mother Church.
The Catholic battle cry is that we should affirm those who are in the right and irritate those who are in the wrong. This Pope thinks it his mission to repeatedly irritate and separate himself from faithful Catholics, especially in the hierarchy, while affirming and promoting, consoling and accompanying every type of doctrinal and moral aberration.
What happened to the spiritual works of mercy:
To reprimand the sinner and
To instruct the ignorant?
The Gospel preached by Christ and John the Baptist was "repent and believe in the Gospel." Why should the Pope oppose those of us who are doing that except that he is at the very least quite confused.
Well, Holy Father, the end result is that loyal Catholics will necessarily not waste their time studying Your Holiness' confusion. A Magisterium which does not teach and lead with clarity is no Magisterium at all!
Pope Francis has it backwards, it's not the shepherd who should smell like the sheep but rather the sheep that should take on the sweet fragrance of the shepherd! Shepherds are not those who follow the sheep but rather those who lead the sheep where they should go and guard them from danger and death!
N.B. The corruption of Buenos Aires.