Pope Francis's tenure as Pope has consequently caused both the largely progressive German church to threaten a schism over his conservative approach to gay marriage (if a bishop or priest officiates a gay marriage they will be immediately defrocked) while simultaneously causing the threat of a schism among parts of the US Catholic Church over his progressive policies of basically trying to eliminate every word of Latin from the masses and cracking down on every other remotely conservative aspect left within the church. Basically he's that meme of the dude agonizing over which of two buttons to push, only he's pressing both buttons and wondering why nothing is working as expected.

His problem, as far as I'm concerned is not that he's too progressive or whatever, its that he can't seem to make up his mind on which stance to take on any given matter.

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