Francis, The Recovering Catholic.

I am a Buddhist. So what? Who are you to judge?

The Most Astonishing Hypocrite In Church History (TMAHICH) travel to Asia and lands in Sri Lanka.

He is supposed to meet his bishops, but he is too tired. The meeting is cancelled.

Then Francis, ahem, recovers and feels better. Does he meet the bishops then? Not to my knowledge, no. Give me a shout if I have missed it. Was he still too tired for them? Who knows.

Francis might in the have been advised to meet his bishop, because you can't always flake lim it's a Beethoven concert at the Vatican. He is, though, enough full of energy to visit a Buddhist temple, and to take part, in some way, in some heathenish religious ceremony. It is, as I write, still unclear to what extent an element of heathen worship was entailed in the Pope's behaviour. Still, there he was. No fatigue there. Must have been the cameras.

But wait: perhaps the visit was scheduled? No, it was not scheduled. It was spontaneous and officially unplanned. Exactly the contrary of the meeting with the bishops, which was actually planned, and pretty much expected.

The way you employ your time says a lot about your priorities.

To me, the way Francis employs his time says an awful lot about what kind of Christian (much less Catholic) he is. He is going around playing Recovering Catholic, and profiting of the prestige of his position to downplay at every turn the very religion he represents. I wonder how many Catholics still understand that outside of the Church there is no salvation, and how many think Dalai Lama-ing around is in any way, shape or form Christian behaviour.

Should resign, move his black shoes to the next Buddhist temple and stay there for as long as the Lord allows him to remain. In true poverty and humility, of course.

It would be still stupid, and still de facto apostasy. But in its stupidity and de facto apostasy it would at least be coherent.

M