…but he’s still a bigot!

This from a letter he wrote against an Argentinian proposal to legalize gay marriage:

Let us look towards Saint Joseph, to Mary, the Child, and let us ask with fervor that they will defend the Argentine family in this moment. Let us recall what God himself told his people in a time of great anguish: “this war is not yours, but God’s”. That they may succour, defend, and accompany us in this war of God.

A war of God, eh?

One wishes the media would stop buying the spin—the new guy is humble! He’s from the South!—and get to the main point. While there are stylistic differences between him and Ratzinger, and some of these will surely have some consequences, nonetheless, Bergoglio is a 76-year-old man with no doctrinal differences between himself and the rest of the Catholic hardliners. He is the Marco Rubio of Catholic dogmatists.

Then there are those lingering questions about his role and the Church’s complicity during the Argentinean dictatorship and disappearances of the 1970s…

I haven’t seen anyone write about this yet, but I would love to hear an informed take on what it means that, to follow a pope who just retired from old age, the Catholic church just picked a 76-year-old….