***A newly modern stance on issues such as charity, service, money, divorce and gay marriage has given Pope Francis universal, inter-denominational appeal.***
If this is true about widespread ‘appeal’, that alone is worrysome. Matthew 7:13 comes to mind.
In addition, I don’t remember the chapter and verse, but Jesus said: “The servant is not greater than his master. They hated me, they will hate also you”.
I actually read that the modern Nuns want the Pope to give them the OK for masturbation.
And if the Pope was to say that this is OK or that is OK,that wont change the right or wrong of anything.
some actually believe if the Pope was to say a particular sin was no longer a sin, that somehow they could now practice that with no worries. I guess they think when they are one day face to face with The Lord, well Lord, the Pope said it was OK.
These college kids are just trading in vague generalities spoon fed them by a shallow, drive-by media. What’s the big change in “charity, service (and) money” teaching by this pope? There is none. This pope teaches the same things on these issues Benedict and John Paul taught. For all the talk about Kasper and the Church teaching on marriage, Francis has said that the teaching cannot and will not be changed. I admit I didn’t care for the “Who am I to judge?” comment. I personally believe that Francis was only trying to say that some people are so screwed by sexual abuse and family/abandonment issues that they may not be as culpable for their objectively grave actions because their wills are compromised by anxiety and compulsion. Despite his unfortunate comment, Pope Francis reaffirmed that marriage is between a man and a woman in his first encyclical. There’s so much gossip and idle speculation about what this pope supposedly believes and is supposedly going to do. And then when he acts or speaks differently on an issue than the gossip, the issue is dropped and a new one is started.