Poche: However, you choose man over Jesus when you support and defend a Pope or Popes who have condoned or have done evil. Yes, in the past we have had bad Popes, clergy and religious and yet most of the common Catholic laity kept and lived the faith. Yes, we are to pray for them but we aren’t to support and defend their mortal sins. Now we have a atheist-like Pope, clergy, religious and laity who openly and publicly rejects God.