FDS proceeds apace on the Catholic right.
It's not easy to take issue with Pope Francis for advocating on behalf of poor folks and immigrants, for criticizing unfettered capitalism and urging protection of the planet. His predecessors have been doing those things for a while, if not always so urgently.
Hence the conservative obsession with his decision to allow divorced and remarried Catholics (under certain circumstances) to take Communion. This doctrinal shift has, for those suffering from Francis Derangement Syndrome, acquired the status of heresy — because it effectively sanctions divorce, opposition to which they've now elevated into a virtual article of Catholic — no, Christian — faith.
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