Meaningless modern platitudes like "Love is Love" are why people seem to think the Church can just change it's ways, and that Papa Francis will be the one to do it. That said, despite being of the reasonably traditional side (we have a good Novus Ordo that we attend and we don't put the Latin Mass on a pedestal), I was skeptical of Pope Francis at first but so much of what he says gets completely misinterpreted by the media. And while some of that is the media's bias, some of that falls upon the Vatican for not fully expounding on statements from the Pope (who doesn't seem to understand American media) that get misinterpreted. That said, I'm inclined to agree with your perspective even though I wouldn't have previously. You can only help people have an encounter with Christ by meeting them where they are. If someone becomes Catholic and holds onto false hope that the Church will change teachings their whole but dies a Catholic that's a soul saved, right? It may be a more fundamental human desire to be right, and be cause we know the Church to be right, and we tell people that the Church is right they should just change their minds. However, people don't work that way, they bristle and harden their hearts if we immediately tell them about their wrongness and can you really blame them? Because in the end we aren't winning souls with our rightness and Orthodoxy, Christ is saving him with his Love.
Meaningless modern platitudes like "Love is Love" are why people seem to think the Church can just change it's ways, and that Papa Francis will be the one to do it. That said, despite being of the reasonably traditional side (we have a good Novus Ordo that we attend and we don't put the Latin Mass on a pedestal), I was skeptical of Pope Francis at first but so much of what he says gets completely misinterpreted by the media. And while some of that is the media's bias, some of that falls upon the Vatican for not fully expounding on statements from the Pope (who doesn't seem to understand American media) that get misinterpreted. That said, I'm inclined to agree with your perspective even though I wouldn't have previously. You can only help people have an encounter with Christ by meeting them where they are. If someone becomes Catholic and holds onto false hope that the Church will change teachings their whole but dies a Catholic that's a soul saved, right? It may be a more fundamental human desire to be right, and be cause we know the Church to be right, and we tell people that the Church is right they should just change their minds. However, people don't work that way, they bristle and harden their hearts if we immediately tell them about their wrongness and can you really blame them? Because in the end we aren't winning souls with our rightness and Orthodoxy, Christ is saving him with his Love.
How can you say pope francis has never fallen into heterodoxy. Here are like 200 cases. https://en-denzingerbergoglio.com/