Here are my bullets for consideration:
- Not all popes are scholars or saints. Some are more spontaneous and less reflective.
- The Italian media, even the official Vatican newspaper, has been infiltrated by Marxists and even atheists for years and years and years.
- Americans never read foreign newspapers as they are so provincial and do not go to the sources. This is a serious problem among trads who naively trust American news sources, which are also anti-Rome.
- Trad newspapers also have agendas. Some are uncharitable, incorrect, and do not check their sources. Some publish knee-jerk articles.
- This Pope has made no doctrinal statements and has only published one encyclical. He has, therefore, only one infallible document, which is that encyclical, as all encyclicals are infallible.
- This Pope is not European and is not part of the European in-crowd, many of whom are not happy with a New World Pope.
- Trads who say he is not a real Pope have excommunicated themselves as sedevacantinists.
- One does not have to LIKE every Pope. The Church has been blessed with saintly men as popes for over a hundred years. This pope may become a saint in office, so pray for him.
- The world-wide media hates the Catholic Church so much all statements, photo-ops etc. are ammo. So? What is new? The media hated the Pope Emeritus as well, and St. John Paul II.
- One must not accept disinformation from any source. There is no such thing as a completely objective newspaper or TV presenter. In fact, some trads listen daily to presenters who absolutely hate Catholics. Pay attention, pray, reflect.