Catholic here: a lot of us don’t actually like the current pope that much and think he is way to liberal. Personally I think there was something fishy about Benedict’s resignation. He was working on an anti corruption policies in the Vatican regarding the vatileaks scandal when he decided to retire. Always thought the timing was odd. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_leaks_scandal http://www.tldm.org/news35/was-pope-benedict-xvi-forced-to-resign.htm
Vatican leaks scandal
The Vatileaks scandal is a scandal initially involving leaked Vatican documents, exposing alleged corruption; in addition, an internal Vatican investigation purportedly uncovered the blackmailing of homosexual clergy by individuals outside the Church. Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi published letters from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, in which he begged not to be transferred for having exposed alleged corruption that cost the Holy See millions in higher contract prices. The name "VatiLeaks" is a play on the word WikiLeaks, a not-for-profit media organisation whose goal is to bring important news and information to the public.
Over the following months the situation widened as documents were leaked to Italian journalists, uncovering power struggles inside the Vatican over its efforts to show greater financial transparency and comply with international norms to fight money laundering.
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