The Pope: Answers

I found this so intriguing. I'm a person of faith. I consider myself more non-denominational Christian now but I grew up Catholic. I had an excellent Catholic upbringing full of love and hope so I find this pope to be in alignment with my experience and worldview of Catholicism. Though I acknowledge that with a billion different Catholics there are a billion different experiences of the Church. I found Pope Francis to be very wise and very kind. I didn't feel like he had any judgement for these kids even though some of them are living life much differently than would be considered ideal for a follower of Christ. Secondly this is just all-around a well-made piece of film. The way it was shot was so awesome and I love the cutaways that depict each of the peoples lives. I'm also gay so I really appreciated the fact that there were questions about that and the Popes response made me feel more welcome in the church. I have always had a solid relationship with Christ and even though I never directly felt any sort of judgment growing up, as a whole the church is sort of notorious for that - I'm talking in circles here people so I apologize but yes this was awesome. Would have loved for it to be longer! Great job to the filmmakers !

I wish this was split into a mini series so we could see more of these conversations. Some people didn't get the chance to speak, and I really wanted to hear more from them. Many of the questions needed more time to be answered and discussed between the people in the room. Everyone had issues close to their hearts, but there wasn't enough time to be emotionally invested in each story.

The topics discussed were relevant, important and interesting, and all in all the pope was respectful and tried to answer in a way that wouldn't upset people.

Overall a good production.

Do I feel like this added something of value to my life? No. Was it an interesting watch? Sure!

This feels quite honest, as the young people talking to the pope not only pose difficult topics (you might expect issues like sexual abuse in the church, but online pornographical content creator for example took me by surprise), but also do not necessarily accept his answers. And are quite diverse - a muslim, an agnostic, a former nun who lost her faith, a girl who seems like a somewhat fanatic catholic, you get it.

To the important bit - are the Pope's answers satisfactory? Obviously that depends on your point of view. As an atheist, I thought they were as good as you can expect them to be from the head of the Catholic Church. There are issues that we can agree to disagree, issues where the answers feel a bit disingenuous (in the abortion discussion 'science tells us'...but then we neglect to also say what science tells us about the time window it should be permitted), and issues where you wish more religious people had Francis' tolerance.

Overall lesson: Francis frankly seems as good as a pope can be (a low bar to pass to be fair) - and a nice old man. Just don't expect 85 year-old priests - even popes - to have all the answers.

I don't know if I should do this in Spanish or English, but I do want to give my humble point of view. Not even an opinion... I was expecting something moving, spiritual, inspiring and I didn't get any of that. Being catholic, I imagine that Pope Francis would take the answers to a more Godly field, that didn't happen either. There was no mention of God or the devil, or even the idea of evil in the world.

I wasn't expecting a debate, but something touching, and that didn't happen at all.

Could have been a documentary, but in the pursue of being edgy they took the "reality show" approach of editing, and tho might be more relatable to young people, left off the solemnity of the Catholic church.

The whole thing was purposely staying away from being religious, and it became a one sided political chat, on favor of the youngster's point of view.

Too, " on the nose" about the producers line of thinking, and the agendas they wanted to push.

By the way, he is the representative of God on earth, hey producers, a little more respect with details. It's your movie after all.

It has some cute moments, but that's about it.

I love Pope Francis, I wish he would agree to do something better next time.