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By Tom Joyce – tjoyce@civitasmedia.com

I’ve made a habit of not trashing anyone’s religion, whether it’s a Southern Baptist, Northern Baptist, Western Baptist, Eastern Baptist, Buddhist or atheist who’s involved and, yes, I’ll even include Methodists in the mix.

As I see it, people’s choice of faith, or none at all, is much like their politics — a personal decision based on their own beliefs, influences and life experiences.

All that being said, I do have problems sometimes with how the Catholic church operates, and was reminded of that once again this week as Pope Francis made his holier-than-thou sojourn through Mexico.

Francis has been one of the more outspoken popes on worldwide issues since ascending to the papacy in 2013. But interestingly, this has been limited to criticism of others by the pope while at the same time not tackling ongoing problems in…