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Pope Francis denounces abortion after decrying church's focus on rules
CBS ^ | September 20, 2013 | staff

Posted on 09/21/2013 1:15:50 PM PDT by icwhatudo

Pope Francis offered an olive branch of sorts to the doctrine-minded, conservative wing of the Catholic Church on Friday as he denounced abortions as a symptom of today's "throw-away culture" and encouraged Catholic doctors to refuse to perform them.

Francis issued a strong anti-abortion message and cited Vatican teaching on the need to defend the unborn during an audience with Catholic gynecologists.

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KEYWORDS: abortion; catholic; obamacare; pope; popefrancis; romancatholicism
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To: icwhatudo

I’m not Catholic but if you have a church, that follows the Bible’s teachings, then wouldnt it be sacrilegious to go against those teachings?
If you no longer believe in these religious teachings just because you want to modernize your church, are you still a religion?
Seems to me you are no longer a Catholic church if you sanctify sodomy and abortion


21 posted on 09/21/2013 3:46:17 PM PDT by lucky american (The Democrats will follow the big "D"even if it means going over a cliff.)
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To: icwhatudo

I read the interview the Pope gave. It is quite long and frankly is geared towards Catholics who understand the bureaucracy of the Church.

But IMHO, the MSM took him totally out of context (he basically said the most important thing is to show love, rather than get sidetracked) and I thought, ha, they are thrilled, they find a few words, haul them out of context, and think, they have an “enlightened” pope! Maybe he’ll even approve of gay marriage and divorce eventually!

It’s so sad, they don’t realize that’s how Christians are SUPPOSED to think, and many do. We are supposed to stand firm on doctrine, but our language and acts must be the Love of God.

I read a book about an atheist who passed for a Christian in a church for a year. She kept waiting for all the evil hate to come out, and it never did. She was convinced all the love talk was a dodge, but they just kept loving her. Libs believe their own propaganda. They think we hide at potlucks talking about taking over the world and hanging gays... sheesh.

“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.... God is love.”


22 posted on 09/21/2013 3:58:42 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: lucky american
Seems to me you are no longer a Catholic church if you sanctify sodomy and abortion

That would be true, and it's clear that Pope Francis did neither.

23 posted on 09/21/2013 4:28:35 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: lastchance

Thats exactly the narrative they are trying to create


24 posted on 09/21/2013 4:30:22 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: icwhatudo

Apparently the media thinks that life and death is a “small rule”


25 posted on 09/21/2013 5:14:04 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: icwhatudo

Apparently the media thinks that life and death is a “small rule”


26 posted on 09/21/2013 5:14:45 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: icwhatudo
Thank you for posting this. I've linked to it on the other thread entitled “Pope Francis: Catholic Church must focus beyond “small-minded rules”

http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3068846/posts?q=1&;page=279

27 posted on 09/21/2013 5:58:10 PM PDT by darrellmaurina
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To: lastchance

Leftists believe that children and babies in particular are so repulsively disgusting that only the unusually weird would have any love for them. So they consider any sympathies for the unborn and newborn to be coming from a rare fringe. The left actually considers the child to be an STD. That is why leftists make up something like 99% of all child abusers and murderers.


28 posted on 09/21/2013 6:57:01 PM PDT by Wanderer99
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To: I still care
Ever see that movie "Paul". Don't....I saw 20 minutes of it and nearly puked then switched to a different channel. No comedy or cleverness whatsoever. Just atheist evangelism from start to finish, obvious dehumanization of Christians, glorifying the rape of impressionable young people, and absolutely no redeeming message whatsoever. There was no soul. The dimwitted director probably didn't realize how it made atheists look like extremely repulsive people...and they were supposed to be the "heroes" of the story.

These lunatics ACTUALLY believe that Christians are psychos...at the same time that atheists make every excuse for their own atrocious lifestyles.
29 posted on 09/21/2013 7:03:47 PM PDT by Wanderer99
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To: icwhatudo

The Pope “encouraged” Catholic doctors not to perfrom abortions. Does he live by the Ten Commandments or the Ten Encouragements?


30 posted on 09/21/2013 8:48:43 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: lastchance

It’s because liberal journalists live in their own bubble/echo chamber full of folks who all think and behave like them. They can’t believe that some might actually be pro-life because, well, they really do think it’s the murder of an innocent human person or that someone might believe marriage is something created by God and that man has no right to redefine something He has already define. They’re probably also used to playing politics and being two-faced to advance their careers. The idea of someone holding to objective moral truths is a foreign concept to them.


31 posted on 09/21/2013 8:51:27 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: ReformationFan

Exactly.


32 posted on 09/21/2013 9:29:08 PM PDT by lastchance ("Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis" St. Augustine)
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To: icwhatudo

This is the problem I have with The Catholic Church....They say here “Vatican teaching”

What about the Bibles teaching????

If the Vatican was to announce that all of a sudden that gay marriage and abortion was ok now, that would not change the facts on how God sees this!

I get the impression that Catholics think that The Pope is somehow closer to God/Jesus than anybody else. This is totally false , he is simply a politician and does not have any rights ahead of you or I.

I am not even convinced that he is a Christian, am really not, and I am speaking about any Pope

I personally believe I may have a closer walk with the Lord than the Pope, and yes I am serious

Saw Father Jonathan on Fox News again this morning, only by chance flipping dials this morning.

Jonathan spoke of his gay sister again, read a letter from her I believe. At any rate he said his sister has not been comfortable with the Catholic Churches teaching on her lifestyle, and she is now encouraged.

Well forgive me Jonathan, what about the Bibles teaching, does that even matter to Catholics anymore?? Does the Pope trump the Bible for crying out loud???

Show me in the Bible were sin has ever been soft peddled in hopes people might be won over? Did it happen at Sodom?

Jesus was always loving but he also said go and sin no more, never did he soft peddle sin. Yes I am a simple sinner saved by Grace!

What about the children? You want to soften the message so as not to offend? Bible says in a couple spots, if anybody hurts one of these little ones, would be better with mill stone around neck or not to have been born at all.

Teaching kids that homosexuality is a option or telling them they might be gay and it`s OK to be gay?

Believing that one is gay, is believing the lies of the devil. Nobody was born gay

Oprah Winfrey like Joel Osteen because he wont say that her lifestyle is wrong. He is NOT helping her, Oprah can NOT have a saving relationship with Christ while she denies her sin

The Pope and Joel Osteen are really sending same message, and its a false message.

Maybe The Pope and Joel will release a statement together? Perhaps it will read like this....Joel and I believe that God has changed his mind on a whole slue of issues, we now believe that you can now be saved without forgiveness of sins??

Is that what is next...actually the Pope said last week that non believers can go to heaven


33 posted on 09/22/2013 7:58:54 AM PDT by Friendofgeorge (SARAH PALIN 2016 OR BUST)
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To: VerySadAmerican

He did more than “encourage” if you read his words. He told them not to participate in these things. This, by the way, was a medical association and most of the doctors were already on his side so he probably did need to encourage (strengthen) them rather than tell them something for the first time.


34 posted on 09/22/2013 8:04:50 AM PDT by livius
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To: I still care

And Jesus in his love said, go and sin no more!

This idea that we can win people over by not mentioning our sins, is pretty ridiculous. Jesus never did that


35 posted on 09/22/2013 8:55:10 PM PDT by Friendofgeorge (SARAH PALIN 2016 OR BUST)
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