Pope Francis to Catholics: ‘Who are you to judge others?’

Religion News ^ | June 20, 2016 | Rosie Scammell

[Gamecock]

A companion thread to Judging non-Catholics

[manc]

He was quick to judge Trump though, and quick to judge about protecting our borders.

[miss marmelstein]

It’s awful the way Catholics run around the world criticizing others with their swords, guns and knives! Oh, wait...

[stockpirate]

The Pope is wrong in his interpretation of not judging others, but he is fallable.

[Mr. Mojo]

The pontiff instead urged his followers to focus on love

Yeah, "love thy jihadi."

[Olog-hai]

Vast majority of the occurrences of the word border in the Bible refer to national borders, and not as something to be routinely violated.

[metmom]

I wonder which one is binding on Catholics everywhere to believe?

[HarleyLady27]

I would have to say, being Catholic myself, he needs to look in the mirror before he tells us to do that, we didn’t comment on anyone in his Vatican as he did about our Presidential Candidate, we haven’t heard him say anything to his ‘flock’ about the rules of our church, only what ‘he’ wants done...IMHO: “False Prophet”....

[Sacajaweau]

Ya know Mr. Pope...I don't hang around with prostitutes, pimps, drug pushers, rapists, bank robbers etc, etc. I certainly do have a right to judge.

It's only the final judgement that is not mine.

[Dr. Sivana]

There is an irony in accusing other people of being judgemental.

[metmom]

The Pope is wrong in his interpretation of not judging others, but he is fallable.

And on what are you basing your judgment and interpretation of what he said to determine that he is wrong?

He's the pope and I take it you're not.

What gives you the authority to sit in judgment on your church leaders?

[Da Coyote]

On moral judgements, perhaps sometimes so.

But when it is a muzzie with a knife yelling to his moon god, it’s .45 time.

Sorry, pope-y, but dat’s the way it is.

(From a former Catholic.)

[fwdude]

This pope fails to notice that he is, himself, judging others.

What a hypocrite. And we know what Jesus thought of hypocrites.

[bigdaddy45]

Isn’t that basically the crowd Jesus hung out with?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Frances seems to be quite the judgmental little hypocrite.

[DungeonMaster]

Metallica and every other heathen says the same thing.

[Westbrook]

> There is an irony in accusing other people of being judgemental.

I would call it hypocritical.

[steve8714]

Quick to call people out as exploiters or hypocrites. Is that not judging them as unworthy? Douchebag.

[metmom]

There is an irony in accusing other people of being judgemental.

And it is TOTALLY lost on the people who do that.

It never occurs to them that they are doing the very thing they condemn.

I became engaged in a conversation the other day when I happened to encounter a friend talking with someone else. They are both believers and were sitting there condemning Christians who judge others.

I just sat there and mostly just watched and listened, fascinated with what I was observing. I had never seen it so clearly before.