Asked about critics who accuse the pope of “Protestantizing" the Catholic church — an objection often raised by conservative Catholics in the U.S. — Francis said, “I don’t lose sleep over it."
Pope Francis is refreshingly trying to help his fellow Catholics to understand that Jesus was not all about rules and regulations like so many Catholic Church leaders seem to be. Jesus was all about discerning the spirit of the law. This is a very good article which shows that the Church needs to be a hospital nurturing the sick to get well, rather than a courtroom to judge and condemn those not following the rules. I believe the Catholic Catechism under Pope Benedict has increased the legalism of the Church and has set us back further than the pre-Vatican II days, since the man-made rules of the Catechism have been given much more importance than reading the Gospels for too many years, in my view, even among bishops.
Sincerely,   Dr Rosemary Eileen McHugh, MD, MSpir