>>591297
>I see all these theories claiming Francis is a commie
Where do they come from? The anti-theist media, the Protestants, the Sedevacantists, etc. Give me any specific doubts or articles you have about him and I'll show you that it's just slander. I used to belong to the /pol/ type crowd that would happily call him a cuck or whatever, but if you dig deeper, you'll truly see how many people try to discredit him. They do it in a very sneaky way, too, usually by taking a snippet of his homilies in Italian and using botchy translations to make their own agendas.
Pope Francis said:
>“Look, I wrote an encyclical, true enough, it was a big job, and an Apostolic Exhortation, I'm permanently making statements, giving homilies; that's teaching. That's what I think, not what the media say that I think.” (http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1750350-pope-francis-god-has-bestowed-on-me-a-healthy-dose-of-unawareness)
>“[S]ome people are always afraid because they don’t read things properly, or they read some news in a newspaper, an article, and they don’t read what the synod decided, what was published. What was worthwhile about the synod? The post synodal connection and the Pope’s address. That is definitive.” (http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1750351-the-synod-on-the-family-the-divorced-and-remarried-seem-excommunicated)
http://www.historyandapologetics.com/2015/02/pope-francis-is-no-liberal-24-examples.html
> illegitimate because Ratzinger stepped down
Popes in the past have stepped down and it is possible for bishops to step down. Papa Benedict stepped down due to his declining health and he probably wanted to avoid having a last few years in the papacy like Saint JPII where nothing much is done due to his declining health.
>In all honesty I used this thread to clear my mind a bit and to just spew out my thoughts.
That's always good, buddy. We're here for you. Have you thought about talking to your priest about some of your concerns? They're going to be much more qualified than any of us here.
>What about Francis brought you back?
His pastoral approach. It got me looking into Catholic media again and that got me interested in Catholicism. I started reading through some Catholic apologetics after that and here I am.
A few misguided traditionalists might hate him (because the media does try to portray him as a liberal commie marxist lol), but he's a good priest. I'm not the only one who was brought back, I personally know two Catholics from this board that came back due to him (one from Protestantism and another from atheism).
>>591298
I mean, it's literally impossible to happen.