Posted on 12/02/2015 7:17:58 PM PST by SkyPilot
Pope Francis has strictly denounced proponents of fundamentalism who claim that they possess “absolute truth."
The Pontiff recently concluded his three-country tour of Africa, visiting the Central African Republic, Uganda, and Kenya.
The Christian Post reports that during an in-flight press conference on his return trip to Rome, Francis stated,"We Catholics have some--and not some, many--who believe they possess the absolute truth and go ahead dirtying the other with calumny, with disorientation, and doing evil. They do evil. I say this because it is my Church."
He added that "ideas and false certainties" can replace faith, love, and God.
The Pope said he was pleased with his trip to Africa where he focused on bringing unity between Christians and Muslims.
"We are living at a time when religious believers, and persons of goodwill everywhere are called to foster mutual understanding and respect, and to support each other as members of our one human family. For all of us are God's children," Francis stated.
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I have a nice leatherbound version of the Absolute Truth (red-letter edition) right there on the nightstand.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Actually, JESUS said to Peter, "Upon this rock I will build MY Church."
Facepalm Pope.
“We Catholics have some—and not some, many—who believe they possess the absolute truth”
A hypocritical criticism, given that it’s his job description.
The global warming fundamentalist
Sounds like this fellow just wants everything to be shades of gray, where we all can lock arms and sing choruses of kumbayhya.
Liking this man less and less every day.
No, and since they don’t know anything in the little city they got, maybe they should shut the whole thing down. It seems there’s a presupposition of absolute truth holding that house of cards together.
Doesn't matter. Francis is a modern leftwing Jesuit. he knows better than your old book.
Absolute truth........hum like Global Warming Francis? What a dangerous fraud this so called man is.
Absolute truth........hum like Global Warming Francis? What a dangerous fraud this so called man is.
Jesus was a fundamentalist.
( John 14:6 )
If he possesses Jesus then he possesses the Truth (and the Way and the Life). Christ has got to be disappointed in this chap for not recognizing this.
I think he has a point in saying nobody mortal has a body of doctrine that comprises, collectively, the “absolute truth.” That would require knowledge of good and evil in the Edenic sense. But by not pointing people squarely to Christ as the source, he has missed a larger point. That’s what moved Martin Luther. Francis is no Luther.
This certainly can be true. He should name names, if he has the nerve.
Global Warming, Capitalism, acquisition of property.
This Pope is just as fundamentalist as those he derides. It’s only that he differs from them on what he’s fundamentalist about.
Glass houses. Stones.
>> Francis is a modern leftwing Jesuit. he knows better than your old book.
OK, then Po-po the Clown can dictate his “truth” to YAHWEH, Creator of the Universe, on the Day of Judgment.
We’ll see where that gets him.
Me, I’ll take my chances with what’s written in my precious old Book here, on the advice of my Advocate, Jesus the CHRIST.
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