The spiritually immature will always pit love against obedience. Be loving and understanding is one thing. Accepting and condoning sin is another. Love the sinner but still hate the sin. You're not loving or helping a sinner by telling them their sin is no sin. You're just lying to them and telling them what they want to hear.

Let's be honest here. A lot of people in this thread want to see this Pope and the Catholic Church completely do away with it's teachings on homosexuality and abortion. Or at least ignore them to the point where the result would be the same.

People often forget that, after Christ did not condemn the woman taken in adultery, He told her to "go her way and sin no more."

God is a God of both justice and mercy. But mercy can never rob justice.