[Catholic Caucus] Pope’s Morning Homily: We Must Convert Our Way of Thinking

Zenit ^ | March 5, 2018 | Deborah Castellano Lubov

[ebb tide]

Thus we can “recite all the Creed, even all the dogmas of the Church,” but if we do not do it “with the Christian spirit”, it does not serve “anything,” insisted Pope Francis: it is necessary to make a “conversion of thought.”

“The way of thinking too, the way of seeing, must be converted,” he said.

[trad_anglican]

sigh ....

Benedict almost always made sense to me. Francis almost never makes sense to me. I guess I need a thought conversion.

[sasportas]

His homilies are not that hard to figure out: “convert your way of thinking to communist.”

[I want the USA back]

I don’t trust anything he says, because he is more interested in communism than Catholicism. He might have something good to say, but it’s not very comforting to know that he supports gays and abortionists.

[jonno]

I don’t disagree with anything he said.

I thought this was significant:
“And to seek if I really think with the spirit of God. And ask grace to discern when I think with the spirit of the world, and when I think with the spirit of God. And ask for the grace of the conversion of thought. ””

However, it’s worth noting that discernment not in accordance with scripture is not “of God”.

[ebb tide]

I don’t disagree with anything he said.

So do you agree that after 2,000 years of reciting the Creed all the dogmas of the Church, Catholics are now obliged to convert their thinking?

[Buckeye McFrog]

If by that he means “quit making rote recitations of things without considering the meaning behind them”, he may have a point.

Somehow I don’t believe that is what he meant.

[ebb tide]

When presented with a spiritual bouquet of rosaries offered to him, Bergoglio responded with this:

" Why don't they say, 'we pray for you, we ask...', but this thing of counting... And these groups return to practices and to disciplines that I lived through - not you, because you are not old - to disciplines, to things that in that moment took place, but not now, they do not exist today...

He also attacked Catholics as being, ""Creed-reciting, parrot Christian(s)."

[Solson]

It’s the opposite of Saint John Newman’s approach and conversion. This Pope...is... questionable.

[Jeff Chandler]

we can “recite all the Creed, even all the dogmas of the Church,” but if we do not do it “with the Christian spirit”,

If this were a single declaration, one would be inclined to accept it in the most positive light. However, it is the accumulation of these kind of remarks, along with repeated outright accusations of adhering to rules without the spirit of Christ that give the very strong impression the pope believes that is what devout (as opposed to open-minded, rule-flaunting) Catholics generally do.

We get it, Papa.

[Jeff Chandler]

And really, is the focus on the Creed and on dogma the problem in the Church? Is there really too much focus on rules and regulations? At least on this particular planet?

[Ann Archy]

Physician ,heal THYSELF!

[maxwellsmart_agent]

I have been a Roman Catholic since birth. I am 74 years old. I have no need for a conversion of thought. A conversion of thought is necessary for him to shove his twisted theology down everybody’s throat. If they continue in Catholic thought, he cannot sell his screwed up ideas like letting people who live in sin receive the sacrements. He is soft on homosexuality in spite of what perverse priests have caused in and to the Church. Ignore his call for conversion of thought.