@thomasvalle No one is suggesting the Church close her doors. The problem with Francis, however -- or at least one of the many problems -- is that he constantly uses straw man arguments like the one cited in the article above. Precisely *no one* is promoting an arrogant, self-satisfied "Church of the pure and perfect." Francis is attacking bogeymen who simply don't exist. We are quite aware of our own frailty and sinfulness, and we don't presume any kind of moral superiority to anyone else. What we do desire, though, is a Church that takes seriously Christ and the deposit of faith handed down to us. Francis manifestly does not do this, and neither do the bishops and cardinals with whom he's surrounded himself. Francis routinely draws a false dichotomy between the Church's teachings and "mercy" -- a mercy whose definition (to the extent it can be defined at all) has been drawn up by Francis himself. He's a bewilderingly arrogant man who see himself as a modern Moses sent to liberate Catholics from 2000 years of Church bondage.

The problem is the Internet and people reacting to all the sensational headlines, gossip and false narratives; and there are those who twist the words of this pope with the same skill that people twist the Sacred Scriptures to mean whatever they want them to mean. I think this pope is annoyed by those who seem to reduce the gospel to attending a beautiful traditional Latin Mass and obeying rules, rather than having a transformation of heart and spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, reaching out as Christ reached out to sinners. Notice in the gospel that the only people Jesus excoriated were the people who meticulously followed all the rules, talked a lot about God and spent all their time in the temple; likewise, one can go to the most beautiful Latin liturgies and obey all the laws and rules, yet be rotten, unforgiving, selfish, self-righteous human beings, completely missing the point of the gospel. This is a common theme coming from this pope, which simply echoes the gospels..