For one thing, it's not even humanly possible to talk about It's also necessary to talk about gay marriage and abortion all the time.
For another thing, it IS necessary to talk, at times, about the Father; the Son; the Holy Spirit; prayer; fasting; almsgiving; spiritual and corporal works of mercy; redemptive suffering; the Sacrament of Penance; the Gospels and Lessons of the daily Mass; the Lives of the Saints; repentance; conversions; salvation; humility; being poor in spirit; the Existence of God; the Creation and Fall; Divine Revelation; Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture; the Incarnation; the Paschal Mystery; the Mystical Body and Communion of Saints; The Four Marks of the Church; the Blessed Virgin Mary; the Four Last Things; the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass; Vocations; the Courage to Marry for Life; ...
Etc. etc. etc.
All topics which he has hit upon since last March.
Jesus didn't talk about Gay Marriage or Abortion even once! Though of course He talked about both Marriage and Celibacy; and St. Paul under the Lord's personal instruction via the Holy Spirit, covered quite a bit of that in detail.
Now if you know me, you know I'm ardently against Gay Marriage and Abortion, and I will compare my record of speaking out, writing and action on those subjects, to anybody else you'd care to name.
But I'd be less than honest if I failed to say that I agree with Pope Francis on this one. He puts these issues in a context which is wide and deep.
And I say, thank God for that.
Good night, Coleus, and God bless!
Jesus didn’t talk about Gay Marriage or Abortion even once! >>
many democrats and pro-choicers say the same thing, they say “where is abortion mentioned in the new testament?” but one has to remember that Jesus was born at a time when all the Jews at that time were Orthodox and understood and obeyed the Mosaic law, He did not come to preach to the choir or preach about what the current Jew of the day already knew..Jesus said to Obey the commandments and pro life and pro marriage are part of the commandments...
anyway, I think our current Holy Father speaks off the cuff and extemporaneously...he needs to exercise some self control and take medication for his ADHD; also we had about 27 years of JPII and about 5 years of Benedict XVI and it seems we didn’t have to explain much about what they said to reporters, the press understood what the 2 previous holy fathers said... Pope Francis is there not even a year and it seems that we are constantly explaining what he was trying to say........I see a lot of “well, he really didn’t say that or he didn’t really mean that, and what he was trying to say is this .......and the press misunderstood what he said....
anyway, getting back to the title of the thread, the Holy Father should learn about the slippery slope...why would he be “shocked?” Once you condone civil unions, which many priests have, then comes gay marriage, gay adoptions and so on....there is no turning back...sorry to say abortion and gay marriage and gay adoptions are here to stay..
and when the man at the top tells the world that we are focusing too much on abortion and gay marriage the world interpreted that as those sins are no different than other sins....I was taught that those are sins are those that cry out to heaven... I guess that is no longer the case....
I wonder how many times fr/bishop/cardinal Bergoglio prayed in front of abortion clinics and participated in sidewalk counseling outside of the abortion mills.
Have a happy, holy and healthy new year!!!