He was the first Jesuit pope and the first pope to have been born in South America (he was born into an Italian family in Argentina). As the Jesuit order and the Roman Catholic Church in South America both tend to lean to the left, so also did the twelve years of his papacy.

Pope Francis' papacy often sparked controversy, much of which he himself sparked. He received much criticism over one particular comment, which the Vatican later explained was his own personal opinion and not the Church's position. The Catholic Herald reported in September 2024 that Pope Francis had declared that "all religions are a path to God." He explained: "They are like different languages in order to arrive at God, but God is God for all. Since God is God for all, then we are all children of God. If you start to fight, 'my religion is more important than yours, mine is true and yours isn't', where will that lead us? There's only one God, and each of us has a language to arrive at God. Some are [Sikh], Muslim, Hindu, Christian, and they are different paths [to God]."

Francis was apparently contradicting both Jesus' statement: "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but byMe" (John 14:6), as well the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church's Second Vatican Council, which emphasized that it was "the burden of the Church's preaching to proclaim the cross of Christ as the sign of God's all-embracing love and as the fountain from which every grace flows." (Nostra Aetate 2, 4) The Catholic Herald noted that in making these remarks, the pope had set aside his prepared remarks and was speaking extemporaneously.

Even his official papal statements, however, also included a great deal of material that led people to wonder if the age-old question that was supposed to imply that the answer was obvious—"Is the Pope Catholic?"—actually now admitted of a negative response.

Argentine President Javier Milei derided him as a "Communist" and even as "the representative of the evil one on earth." In 2023, Pope Francis responded to a series of dubia ("doubts") that Cardinals Walter Brandmüller and Raymond Leo Burke, along with the support of three other Cardinals, Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, Robert Sarah, and Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, had sent him the previous year, asking him to clarify his position on five issues where he had appeared to depart from the actual teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. Vatican News identified these as "the interpretation of Divine Revelation, the blessing of same-sex unions, synodality as a constitutive dimension of the Church, the priestly ordination of women, and repentance as a necessary condition for sacramental absolution."

The most striking aspect of this incident was neither the questions nor the pope's answers, but the fact that it had happened at all, and that it had been necessary to question the guardian and anchor of the Roman Catholic faith over his own adherence to that faith. There was no parallel to this in modern times, and it exemplified how much Francis was a very different kind of pope from the great majority of his predecessors.

Francis also followed a leftist line on most of the burning political issues of our day. In 2016, he declared that someone who built a border wall was "not a Christian."... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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