Mr. Neumayr greatly summarise a case against Pope Francis. Traditionalistic Catholics' worldview tend to rotate in the Trump's orbit much better than Vatican which is under reformation. Pope Francis embraced values which Trump reviles and hates including care for immigrants, Earth pollution and the economic quality. But one questions arises what is the source of Christianity of Trump Catholics? The answer is: Trump himself. Unfaithful, dirty, lying and undignified politician whom the rest of the world must suffer as President of USA. Mr. Neumayr does not hid.e his hostility (hatred) of Pope Francis. This is the reason why it is so important to read his book. It unveils the nakedness of pro-Trump critics of Pope Francis - as his true idol from White House these criticism is based on bad emotion, pride and nostalgia for a feeling a being elite... Yes, in that sense this book is a good educational experience.

I have a serious problem with so-called book reviews that, instead of reviewing the book, write their opinion of the opinions expressed in it. As a result, I will try to focus on the book itself.

Pope Francis and his pronouncements of various kinds have received widespread and loudly approving coverage in the mainstream press, mostly secular, but also religious. What has been absent from this is a look at what is being said and written by Francis in the light of Catholic doctrine, teaching, and practice. Neumayer is addressing this imbalance in this well-written and thoroughly researched book.

His conclusion from this research is that Pope Francis is more concerned with leftist and radically leftist viewpoints and with political issues than he is interested in matters of Church teaching and doctrine. In chapter after chapter Neumayer demonstrates this with the Pope's own writing, speeches, and remarks. He shows how Francis has constantly broken the tradition of Popes not speaking on political matters.

He also demonstrates how, by his actions, Francis has taken as allies and even promoted non-Catholics who take positions contrary to Catholic doctrine and given then Church-sponsored platforms.

It more than redresses the imbalance in coverage of the Pontiff. It also makes for scary reading for those who hold less-extreme views and for those who would like more doctrine-based teaching from the Church's head.

My biggest problem with the book's very convincing argument is that for all but the final chapters Neumayer uses the terms "liberal" and "conservative" to describe the Pope and his allies as opposed to the rest of the Church. This bothered me for two reasons. First, the terms really don't apply to practice and belief which are, or should be, outside the political sphere. Second, it makes all those believing and faithful Catholics who are questioning and looking for guidance seem to be on the right of the political spectrum, which just isn't true.

Then I realized that he chose to use these terms deliberately. If Pope Francis is framing the Church's direction in a political way, as the author demonstrates, then these terms make sense.

Neumayer also uses the Pope's focus on political issues to determine the structure of the book. Chapters focus on his attention to immigration, gender equality, the environment, and other topics with only passing references to how these opinions differ from Catholic teaching or how the implication of them could destroy this teaching. That's appropriate because his argument against the Pope's actions and speech is strong without them.

It's only in the final two chapters that the author focusses on theology and doctrine. They take a backseat for Francis and they should take a backseat here. But it is in these chapters where. I think, the most important question of Francis' papacy gets discussed -- is all this orthodox or heterodox? And if it is heterodox what is being done and what can we do?

This question unites believing, practicing Catholics of many political persuasions and is one which makes this book essential reading.