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Francis critics misguided

Tue., Nov. 18, 2014

Conservative Catholic prelates, priests and laity who disagree with Pope Francis’ liberalism should meditate on the admonition of their profoundly conservative patron saint, Pope John Paul II: “It was not to John … nor to Paul … that Christ gave the task of strengthening the other apostles, his brethren, of feeding the lambs and the sheep, but to Peter alone.”

Jim Haas

Pullman

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