This from the new humble Pope of the poor and the downtrodden, who favors poverty, going out to the people, liturgical simplicity, and the common man…
The faith is not negotiable. There has always been, in the history of the people of God, this temptation: to cut a piece away from the faith, perhaps not even very much. But the faith is how we speak of it in the Creed. We must overcome the temptation to do a bit as everyone does, not to be so very rigid, because right from there begins a road that ends in apostasy. In fact, when we begin to cut up the faith, to negotiate the faith, to sell it to the highest bidder, we start down the road of apostasy, of infidelity to the Lord. (Source)
The Porteño Pope doesn’t quite fit into most people’s categories, does he?
