[dangus]

“The most serious of the evils that afflict the world these days are youth unemployment and the loneliness of the old.”

How in God’s name does that square up with Pope Benedict and Pope John Paul II’s teachings on abortion? All that can be said for Sandro Magister is that Pope Francis is too smart (Jesuitical?) to directly state a heresy... but oh, can he continually imply them with every breath he takes!

[BlatherNaut]

Pope Francis is too smart (Jesuitical?) to directly state a heresy... but oh, can he continually imply them with every breath he takes!

He's clearly becoming emboldened in that regard.

Francis: It Seems Formal Heresy To Me

[Mrs. Don-o]

I understand what you're saying. "Unemployment"? "Loneliness"? It's dicey to classify evils according to God's measure of things.

An interesting Scriptural perspective:

There are four especially grave offenses which are traditionally classified (on the basis of Biblical texts) as "Sins Which Cry Out to Heaven for Vengeance":

1. shedding of innocent blood (Gen 4:10)

2. the sin of Sodom (Gen 18:20-21)

3. oppression of the poor (Ex 2:23-25)

4. defrauding workers of a just wage. (James 5:4)

And the sin of Sodom?

Ezekiel 16:48-51:

As I live—oracle of the Lord God—I swear
that your sister Sodom with her daughters
have not done the things
you and your daughters have done!
Now look at the guilt of your sister Sodom:
she and her daughters were proud,
sated with food, complacent in prosperity.
They did not give any help
to the poor and needy.
Instead, they became arrogant
and committed abominations before me;
then, as you have seen, I removed them.