text: The premise of this post is wrong. Whether you see the Pope as a father or as an administrator, his comments are meant lovingly. Read Hebrews 12:
  
  My son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lord
  or lose heart when reproved by him;
  for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines;
  he scourges every son he acknowledges.
  
  Endure your trials as “discipline”; God treats you as sons. For what “son” is there whom his father does not discipline?
  If you are without discipline, in which all have shared, you are not sons but bastards.
  Besides this, we have had our earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not [then] submit all the more to the Father of spirits and live?
  They disciplined us for a short time as seemed right to them, but he does so for our benefit, in order that we may share his holiness.
  At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained.