Hey, it wouldn’t be Christmas if the pope weren’t dogging trads, would it?

According to the AP: Francis appeared to also want to take broader aim at arch-conservatives and traditionalists who have become the pope’s biggest critics. Francis blasted their way of living the faith, insisting that being Catholic doesn’t mean following a never-changing set of dicta but is rather a “process of understanding Christ’s message that never ends, but constantly challenges us.”

“True heresy consists not only in preaching another gospel, as Saint Paul told us, but also in ceasing to translate its message into today’s languages and ways of thinking,” Francis said.

So the trads are heretical for attending Mass, raising their children in the faith, and donating to their parish? They’re heretical for believing what every Catholic was supposed to believe up to five minutes ago?

If I didn’t know any better, I’d start thinking that Pope Francis just didn’t like traditionalist Catholics.