That's probably an overstatement. It's more along the lines of Americans becoming broadly aware that Francis is the Barack Obama of "Christiandom," a leftwing partisan Pope that is far more politician/extremist than spiritual figure, and thus dividing the American people along familiar ideological fault lines rather than unifying them in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as is supposed to be his job description:
The results of a new poll show Pope Francis' favorability rating in the United States has plummeted over the last seventeen months.
A Gallup survey finds that the Pope's favorability rating is 59%, down from 76% in February 2014.
Soon after he was elected Pope in March 2013, another Gallup poll found his favorability rating in the U.S. to be 58%.
The most recent Gallup poll finds that the Pope's rating decline can tied to Catholics and conservatives, whose support for him dropped eighteen and twenty-seven percentage points since last year's survey, respectively.
Support for the Pope has also fallen among Protestants and other Christians (-21%), moderates (-8%), and liberals (-14% - I guess because he hasn't given his blessing to Planned Parenthood yet. But rest assured, he will.).....
Fueling Pope Francis' declining support could be the Vatican's recent directives on climate change, which the Pope [lie]d is supported by "a very solid scientific consensus."
There's something highly inappropriate about polling a Pope's "job approval" numbers, if you ask me. As though he's just a politician instead of the latest in a line of Church leaders purportedly extending all the way back to the Apostle Peter. On the other hand, the Catholic Church has seen a great deal of carnal politicking down through the centuries, with quite a few "Pope-iticans" who didn't exactly evoke memories of Christ's "Twelve Ordinary Men," much less Christ Himself. Who did, after all, say that, "My Kingdom is not of this world". Quite obviously, Francis disagrees.
Still, 59% is a level of popularity that any POTUS would kill for, so Francis isn't suffering, even if he needed to worry about American public opinion. Which he doesn't, any more than his soul(less)mate Barack Obama has ever had to.
Indeed, it's dismaying that 41% of our countrymen are content to be commanded to embrace economic and societal ruin in the name of (whether they realize it or not) Satan. But that's a heckuva lot better than just 24%. And at the rate that trend is unfolding, Francis might be "underwater" by next spring.
Pity his funny hat is probably a floatation device.
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