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Pope Francis: Men shouldn't be so macho
La Salette Journey ^ | February 2, 2015 | Paul Melanson

Posted on 02/02/2015 4:58:12 PM PST by cleghornboy

As noted here, Pope Francis, who once boasted of having been a bouncer,"has called for more women in the International Theological Commission, even after tripling the number of women on the team this past September. 'In the ever more diverse makeup of the Commission,' he said, 'I want to see a higher presence of women.'

The Pope also said recently that it is chiefly women who pass on the faith, and urged men to listen to women more and not be so 'macho.' He said that men often don’t allow enough room for women while 'women are capable of seeing things with a different angle from us, with a different eye.'

Got that? You men who are discerning a vocation to the priesthood must come to view masculinity as a sort of disease which leads to men ignoring women and ultimately excluding them. Men must be ashamed of their masculinity and learn to identify more with women. We don't listen enough to women? I think the problem, at least in the West, is that we cater too much to women. One could certainly argue that women in Islamic nations are suppressed and relegated to the status of furniture. But not in the West. Throughout the Church in the United States, women outnumber men in virtually every Church ministry. Everyone knows this. The absence of laymen participating in Church ministries to any appreciable degree is the result of the effeminization of the Church, the Cult of Softness.

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TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: macho; men; popefrancis; women
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To: cleghornboy
How about this, Mr. Pope?


21 posted on 02/02/2015 5:15:10 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian ((I once was blind but now I see...))
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To: cleghornboy

One positive if Hillary wins is that we’ll have a more manly president than we do now.


22 posted on 02/02/2015 5:15:29 PM PST by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: cleghornboy

Yeah, we’ve done just so well with mamma’s boys and trannies. Leave the real men alone.


23 posted on 02/02/2015 5:16:38 PM PST by Politicalkiddo ("Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young..." -1 Timothy 4:12)
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To: cleghornboy

Well, this pope hasn’t exactly been tough enough.


24 posted on 02/02/2015 5:17:14 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: alphadoggie

Get used to being single.
Less hassle.


25 posted on 02/02/2015 5:17:14 PM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: cleghornboy
Does this little idiot ever consider that if it weren't for the likes of a ''macho'' guy such as Charles Martell he wouldn't have the job?
26 posted on 02/02/2015 5:17:22 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: cleghornboy

This non-Catholic thinks the College of Cardinals blew it on this one. Next he’ll be advising the world about table manners.


27 posted on 02/02/2015 5:17:37 PM PST by Will88
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To: cleghornboy

Pope Francis,shut up !!!!!!!

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28 posted on 02/02/2015 5:19:42 PM PST by Mears (there wasn't much conversation about it.)
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To: skeeter

He’s already said Catholic families were too big


29 posted on 02/02/2015 5:22:16 PM PST by heye2monn
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To: cleghornboy

He doesn’t really mean it. He’s just playing Rope-a-Dope-Pope.


30 posted on 02/02/2015 5:26:49 PM PST by Rocky (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. George Orwel)
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To: cleghornboy

What? Comrade Pope wants men to wear dresses like him? Wants men to become a little more effeminate like his gang of “gay” priests?


31 posted on 02/02/2015 5:34:11 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Benghazi Clinton killed 4 & injured a dozen as SOS, imagine what she could do as CinC.)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

Aaaaaaaaaamen!


32 posted on 02/02/2015 5:37:18 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: cleghornboy

Until the left and feminism and the media started changing the language, Americans and Britain, etc, believed in masculine men, and the word “macho” described the weird, insecure male cultures of Latins and Latinos.

Our masculine men were the strong silent types who walked softly and protected women and children and the weak, against the blustery macho types.

Think Jimmy Stewart, versus the loud macho bad guy.


33 posted on 02/02/2015 5:38:00 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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To: cleghornboy
Maybe we men should get a transsexual operation.

Get those troublesome little weenies chopped off.

Is that what yur sayin wee papa?

If it is...take your South American Commie/Jesuit ideas back to the Amazon.

34 posted on 02/02/2015 5:40:33 PM PST by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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To: Gamecock; metmom; daniel1212; BlueDragon; Mark17; boatbums

Hoo boy.


35 posted on 02/02/2015 5:41:22 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: cleghornboy

Lighten up, Francis.


36 posted on 02/02/2015 5:42:03 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: cleghornboy

he’s laying the groundwork for the vatican to cover gender reassignment surgery.

you laugh. it’s going to happen.


37 posted on 02/02/2015 5:42:43 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: cleghornboy

Remember, this advice comes from a guy who wears a dress.


38 posted on 02/02/2015 5:43:06 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: 9YearLurker

Actually, he rather famously DOESN’T wear red shoes.

It’s one of the ways he’s TOTALLY REFORMED THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, INTRODUCING MERCY INTO CATHOLICISM FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME EVER, EVER, EVER.


39 posted on 02/02/2015 5:43:17 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: svcw

you must have started the pope francis misinterpreted again drinking game, didn’t you?


40 posted on 02/02/2015 5:43:58 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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