In all honesty..........I was raised Catholic, though I’m pretty much in the camp of disliking all organized religion now, and you have literally invested more time and thought on the Pope than I did the first 18 years of my life.
The Catholics I grew up around (northern NH folk) didn’t really seem too worried about him one way or the other. It was a mill town, though.........,,

�Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.�