Posted on 09/15/2014 11:04:46 AM PDT by cleghornboy
Irish Central reports:
"Pope Francis continues to amaze. He married 20 couples on Sunday in Rome several of them “living in sin” having had children outside marriage.
'The people getting married on Sunday are couples like many others,' the diocese of Rome said in a statement. 'Some already live together, some already have children.'
The Pope said marriage was 'real life, not some TV show.'
In marrying them he he kicked away one of the bulwark beliefs of the sex-obsessed hierarchy in the old church, the belief that sex outside marriage was a heinous and immoral act.
All of us Irish Catholics grew up with that unfortunate characterization of those who did not conform to the absolute orthodoxy of only having sex and children within marriage.
All others were fallen sinners. This led to some mighty hypocrisy on all sides as fallen men and women were considered far below the virtuous few – most of whom on closer scrutiny were not such virtuous souls.
The scandal around the unfortunate Bishop Eamon Casey, when it was revealed he had a child, was subsequently utterly dwarfed by the pedophile crisis that hit the church in Ireland like a hurricane. It seems likely that contraception could be next. Francis is nothing but a realist, and over 90 percent of Catholic couples use contraception.
Francis is trying to make the church more inclusive, to absorb those who have been driven away by right wing ideology bordering on the dictatorial...
(Excerpt) Read more at lasalettejourney.blogspot.com ...
Most Catholics would love to join Pelosi and Biden in taking communion at the Vatican, most Catholics vote democrat, and would share in the respect shown the numerous Catholic leaders of the democrat party as an endorsement of their shaping of America.
“For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her”
Do you have something understandable to post, in response to post 82?
The only test for a prophet is if their prophesy’s become true.
How many false prophet Popes has there been?
Just wondering.
“For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her”
Holy Moly!
Gas on the fire.
Hmmm....that is from the bible.
We all know that, including the Catholic church and the Popes and the Vatican.
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