text: The homily at mass is not the place to criticize the pope, regardless of who the pope is and regardless of whether the priests doing the criticizing are conservative or the progressive.   The mass should be focused on the words  and message of Jesus Christ. 
  
   There are other ways  and places to address what's going on with the pope and the church.
  
    For someone to make such a blanket statement as "... Pope "Francis has only been bad for the church.", shows someone who does NOT have a discerned conscience.  A discerned conscience has to actively seek truth from God and has to have an openness to the movements of the Holy Spirit. A good conscience needs to be constantly fed, renewed and purified through the Holy Spirit.
  
   Too make conservatives are so convinced that they already know everything that needs to be known and no one can tell them differently.  They mistake stubbornness for faith and neither common sense, nor words of the pope nor the Holy Spirit himself can make if through.