A group of 19 Catholic priests and academics in a 20-page open letter to the bishops of the Catholic Church, asking the bishops to denounce Pope Francis publicly as a heretic

Unfortunately, the excuse is that Francis is a mystic. Dun, dun, dun.

Pope Francis, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, a product of Jesuit training, is someone whose spirituality is rooted, in a profound way, in a specific mystical experience he had on September 21, 1953.

That experience was the catalyst for his priestly vocation. MORE