Interview with Mike Lewis - Opposition to Pope Francis
Podcast: Season 3, Episode 5
It took three seasons, but we finally had Mike Lewis on the podcast!
Mike reminded me that the very first podcast I was apart of was the original Where Peter Is podcast that we launched at the beginning of the pandemic.
We started out this episode with Mike sharing the story of his recent near-death experience. And then we jumped into a discussion about the opposition towards Pope Francis that we’ve seen in the Church.
Mike described his experience of this enmity towards Francis like an apocalyptic movie where the lone survivor of a plague wakes up one day and realizes that he’s the only person left. So many of the leaders and public voices in the Church who for years praised Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, who spoke about the papacy with nothing but respect, all of a sudden began saying some of the most disrespectful and ridiculous things about Pope Francis.
This culture of suspicion and animosity towards the pope has created an environment where dissent is lauded as faithfulness and that hinders constructive criticism of the pope in areas that may actually deserve criticism.
This was a pretty free-wheeling conversation. I hope you enjoy listening to it.
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This week, Paul and Dominic are joined by Mike Lewis from Where Peter Is. We initially planned on discussing papal authority, but we ended up talking about Mike’s recent-near death experience before looking back on the past ten years of Pope Francis’ pontificate. Specifically, we discussed the toxic and bizarre opposition towards Pope Francis that has emerged in the past decade.
Mike Lewis is the founding managing editor of Where Peter Is. He and Jeannie Gaffigan co-host Field Hospital, a U.S. Catholic podcast. Mike lives in Maryland with his wife Stephanie and their four kids.
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