We co-exist within the Green Party because we largely share a concern for environmental and social justice. As a Jesuit, Bergoglio has a pretty good track record of championing the poor, but I do wonder how Green Party members happily remain within churches where their purported ‘infallible’ leader – God’s supposed representative here on Earth – spouts this sort of appalling nonsense.

Intolerant of these attitudes? Guilty as charged!

Part of a speech against Argentina presidential candidate Cristina Kirchner given in 2007, during the electoral campaign.

From a private letter to some nuns that became public.

Until he at least starts sorting out the child abusers within his ranks, and getting them prosecuted in courts of (worldly) law, he can have no moral authority whatsoever. It may be week one, but it has to be his number one priority. It will be interesting to see if his ‘elevation’ to the Holy See leads to actions on this front that we could all applaud.

Andy Chyba