"To Tear Francis Down"

"When Benedict, a Bavarian theologian nicknamed 'God's Rottweiler,' stepped down earlier that year, he still had significant support in the Vatican for his most extreme conservative stances—he once quoted fourteenth-century texts that criticized Islam as 'evil and inhuman'; lifted the excommunication of a British bishop who denied the Holocaust; and claimed condoms worsened the fight against AIDS. Since then, conservative dissenters in the Catholic hierarchy have formed a resistance of sorts, pushing back against Francis's pronouncements on divorce, immigration, climate change, and poverty. 
"Much of this resistance comes from the United States."

Kaya Oakes at The New Republic describes how "[s]ome Catholic leaders are using the sex abuse crisis to unseat Pope Francis."