Posted on 04/08/2016 6:53:23 AM PDT by Lera
Then his timing is just awful or he has no clue what goes on the real world. Gays are not a persecuted minority in the West. By no stretch of the imagination is this true. The violence, disease, addiction they face are brought upon by their own behavior. Governments are in a unprecedented historical push to accept and promote homosexuality. 2000 year-old Catholic concepts of man/woman, rights of children, and marriage are being flushed away in the blink of an eye. And all he can do is put the onus on Catholics by implying we are the bigots.
But what if the homosexual opposes illegal immigration?
Maybe following the law is a greater sin than sodomy.
Or maybe under this liberation theologian, there are no sins anymore. Christ died for political positions.
is that “One” Corinthians?
Homosexual Pope.
And it all began by adopting a low view of the Bible in reaction to Protestantism (something no “conservative” Catholic will admit).
“I’m a proud cultural Catholic but not a very observant one, sadly”
I don’t think this Pope is, either.
This situation and this statement are very tricky spiritually - I hope unintentionally.
Everything spiritual is literally black and white (except in my “Red Letter” edition, where there is also red ink), but we cannot close off the way of grace and growth. The priest’s job is to find the right balance that welcomes people to God’s grace without supporting the confusion that people who reject God’s word try to generate. It’s hard. I know, having often spent hours with my wife discussing how to approach the latest parenting challenge. It’s also the priest’s job and (I hope) his calling.
The rigorous pastoral care that leaves no room for confusion must be combined with a Church attentive to the goodness which the Holy Spirit sows in the midst of human weakness. But the Church must also be attentive to the evil that Satan sows in that weakness.
Every person, regardless of sexual orientation, ought to be respected in his or her dignity and treated with consideration. An essential element of consideration and dignity is firm guidance. I love my children too much to allow them to go astray without guiding them back to the right path, so I raised them with a careful balance between firmness and love. The Church must give its members the same love.
In other words, he endorses "same sex unions" but doesn't call it marriage. That's so much better!!! [/sarcasm]
He is a Marxist first, then pope, then Catholic.
The biggest heresy going right now in the Western world is Sodomism. And he refuses to stand up against it. The wolves are ravaging his flock and he admonishes the sheep.
Deposing this man would be an act of mercy. On him and the Church.
Love the sinner, love the sin...
“Hate the sin; love the sinner.”
Well...the church had better address the divorced hetero’s before he allows the homo’s in...just say’n.
And he wonders why Catholics are leaving the Church in droves.
“Pope Francis, who has long revealed his liberal positions through interviews, came out on Friday in an official statement..”
Reporters. Aren’t they just so clever?
I thought they did, and that it had gotten them into deep financial doo-doo here in the US.
Because the anti-Christ will probably be a homosexual, our good friend the Pope is enabling Biblical prophecy. So it would seem.
The Catholic church will not survive this pope.
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