'Faithful Cathoilc': that's your username/moniker. Are you sure it's appropriate? What are you being faithful to? Yes, I know: Scripture and 'Tradition'. But none of this amounts to a hill of beans if it collectively is not being faithful to God's teaching. 

The uncomfortable truth, for dogmatic and conservative theologians (and for people like you), is that S&T has, for the most part, never been faithful to God on the matter of dealing with personal enemies. Finally and thankfully, a pope is awakening to this historical fact (and, similtaneously, implying the historical fallibility of S&T).

For us as Christians, the issue has to do with what Jesus himself teaches about it, not with anything else. You, surely, as a 'faithful' Catholic (which presumably means you count yourself as a follower of Jesus) can see this, can't you? Can't you? Well, no, you can't, actually. Because you have dismissed his teaching as  a 'Red Herring'.

What a strange 'Faithful Catholic' you are.