Posted on 10/15/2014 4:13:51 AM PDT by Biggirl
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- A fight for the soul of the Catholic Church has broken out, and the first battlefield is a document on family values that pits increasingly alarmed conservatives against more progressive bishops emboldened by Pope Francis' vision of a church that is more merciful than moralistic.
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Progressive view: “vision of a church that is more merciful than moralistic.”
There you have it, by extention, “progressives” on the fag issue are immoral.
FWIW, through confession, and repentence, Catholics have an avenue to get right with Church values so in that vein, the Church, and the faith itself, is merciful IMO.
This pope is not Catholic and is quite possibly a faggot to boot.
Beware of AP propaganda.
The Great Catholic Cave-In that Wasn’t: The synod of bishops has NOT thrown out Church teaching
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3214983/posts
Six things you need to know about the Synod of Bishops’ interim report
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3215075/posts
Will it all come down to money?
liberalism threatens the Church’s existence.
The AP? Really? (shaking head).
It’s unbelievable how this is being misrepresented. Really disgusting.
News Flash Nicole ... Jesus was "Moralistic". Speaking the Truth, with charity, is in fact merciful. It would be worse, actually cruel and merciless, if the Church didn't speak the Truth. That would mean it had no care or concern for your eternal soul at all. It does, and that is why teaching Christ's moral truths is in fact merciful.
This is not a battle between “progressives” and “conservatives”. The MSM wants to portray Christianity and Catholicism as just a political process where one has the option of choosing his views and political maneuvering decides what the faithful should believe.
This is struggle between good and evil. It is a struggle between those who want to uphold the teachings of Jesus Christ and 2000 years of rich and holy tradition and those who wish to discard it all in order to be politically correct and appease the homosexual activists.
The job of the hierarchy is not to try to gain the approval of homosexuals. It is to provide leadership, guidance and spiritual comfort to the Catholic families whose contributions keep the church going.
It is not to promote and protect a network of homosexual priests and force the faithful to pay for their lawsuits and their decadent lifestyle.
Jesus suffered and died for us. He sacrificed his life for us. I can't imagine any of these politically correct dissemblers ever sacrificing anything for the Catholic faithful who provide them with their wealth and their power.
How could we have gone from Benedict to this dude
It looks to me that church may be heading toward a split. With a leftist pope calling for a “nonjudgmental” approach toward homosexuality and the synod resulting in a “welcoming” attitude toward them, I can’t imagine the conservative side of the church sitting still without giving pushback.
Apart from where you stand on the issue of “doctrinal shift” or “working paper” there is something that MUST be acknowledged; that interim report WAS released.
I agree with Weigel that we need to stop hyperventaling about this, that the Church is not making a revolutionary move, however, there is some element in the Vatican; press office, Curia, whatever, that is recklessly out of control. Simply as a management issue, this needs to be brought under control immediately before further scandal is given.
“How could we have gone from Benedict to this dude?”
I think that same thing all the time. It no longer feels as simple as an old guy retires and a new guy is selected. Something else is at play, but we’ll never know the truth.
-— I agree with Weigel that we need to stop hyperventaling about this, that the Church is not making a revolutionary move, however, there is some element in the Vatican; press office, Curia, whatever, that is recklessly out of control. -—
That’s where I am right now.
That is the source service.
Failing to be moralistic is about the most unmerciful thing the Church could do.
Unfortunately this "element" has the complete backing of the Pope.
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