I think I figured out the source of our miscommunication. My response was not to your first thought, which is the only one the NCR machine slapped on the beginning of my post, but to your last sentence, which I should have put in there, making the exchange:

J- "It’s troubling that folks want to make Francis more merciful than Jesus." 

C-"What folks? God's mercy is infinite. How can a guy come close to that? Francis is just trying to get this through people's heads so they can be comforted and healed by its grace and power."

My apologies for the lack of clarity. We disagree about plenty, it sounds like, but the stuff we agree about is more important. And of course, if Aquinas saw that his own works are straw, I shudder to think what he would make of our back and forth.

So, Jay Edward, who are the folks who want to make Francis more merciful than Jesus? Huh? Cat got your tongue? I thought so:)