Pope Francis is one of the most hated men in the world today. Facebook Twitter Pinterest The newly appointed Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2013. In 2015, American journalist Ross Douthat, a convert to Catholicism, wrote a piece for the Atlantic magazine headlined Will Pope Francis Break the Church? ; a Spectator blogpost by the English traditionalist Damian Thompson threatened that “Pope Francis is now at war with the Vatican. The introverts had their revenge with the election of Pope (now Pope Saint) John Paul II in 1978.

Source: The Guardian October 27, 2017 04:52 UTC