I think most Catholics are very nice people, but I see the pope as another politician most of the time. Not being Catholic, I pay very little attention to him or the Vatican unless something puts them in the news or on my mind. I need to expand on my "whore" comment though. That was something we were discussing at lunch at work, and our chaplain and another officer said something about "fornicating with all nations" I recently read a TIME article about Pope Francis and his diplomatic visits, and it showed Francis vs Benedict on the map, and the places they chose to go. I was looking at that, they're not really a country, but the Vatican has diplomatic relations with most of the world. That's where I was using that. I was not aware until later when I looked at more articles that there are a whole lot of people who think the Vatican is satanic, communist, secretly some other religion, whatever you want to attach to it. There are lots of people who are using that same whore statement for different purposes.
I'm not going to say much else about the Pope, until he does/says more stuff I have a problem with. I really don't care about the gay issue , but I swear I read something about him supporting gay marriage. I looked back, and I could not find it. It was probably on some BS-artist site like huff po. If that's not actually true, and it appears it wasn't, then my finger-pointing at him will have to wait till later.
The gun control thing is pretty hypocritical coming from a guy who drives around in an armored vehicle with tons of armed guards. But then, it's hypocritical when Obama and Pelosi do it too, so nothing much exciting there.