Funny Stuff: The secret to the "pope's" popularity: credibility
The news coming from these heretical novus ordo sites gets funnier by the day. FreeMason Francis is "popular" because he is credible?
This just in: Your ticket to heaven is stamped with the majority vote and the "will of the people".
Article: Since beginning his pontificate now four years ago, Francis
has kept wide-spread popularity throughout the world, and especially
with people in the United States.
DR. MICHAEL D. DRIESSEN
John Cabot University
"Poll
data shows that he's [Pope Francis] won the hearts and minds and has a
very high popularity all across the world. So he's been capable of
bringing people in and making his faith look credible. This is what he's
interested in; sort of offering, projecting, entering into, living out a
very spiritually credible holy life and allowing all of his policies to
flow from that.”
Dr. Michael Driessen,
the chair of the department of political science and international
affairs at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, is frequently called on
as an expert opinion in Europe on politics and trends in the U.S.
He
references a Pew Research Center study from January 2017, where data
shows that most Catholics, and most Americans in general, like Pope
Francis. Thus, his favorable numbers have remained in the 80 percentile
with American Catholics and in the 70 percentile with the general United
States public.
DR. MICHAEL D. DRIESSEN
John Cabot University
"We
see these levels of support for the pope. I mean, these levels are
unheard of. We see people latching on as well, across the political
spectrum, to this sort of leader.
That
credibility is key here. Beyond whether or not people agree with him on
specific issues, his spiritual credibility, his credibility as a holy
person, his credibility as an authentic human being is just widespread
loved.”
The pope's way of gaining popularity
does not seem to be one of tiptoeing around important issues. Instead,
he is forcefully speaking out contrary to various world leaders, and
calling out ideologies of hatred, destruction and fear which are
creeping into society as a whole.
DR. MICHAEL D. DRIESSEN
John Cabot University
"There's
a whole series of issues, which I think the pope in this moment is
uniquely placed to speak to, and from a unique place of credibility. So
he's not speaking for the secular liberal left; he's speaking for a
religiously expressed understanding of humanities and sort of a
humanistic understanding, which I think undercuts some of that
opposition.”
The latest polls show that
in January 2017, the pope's popularity reached 87 percent. It will be
interesting to see if the numbers inch up to the 90th percentile at all
during this upcoming year.
NO REAL Catholic is following this heretic!
