You need to sort that out with many of your fellow Catholic FReepers who insist that the RCC does teach that one has to be a Catholic to be saved. Your statements sound very reasonable and I do hope it is the case.
Back to this article. What I find interesting as I pursue all these posts is no one is picking up on the incorrect headline (in the article). The Pope never said "gay Priests", he said "gay". One can say - what difference does it make since "gay Priests" are a subset of "gay"? However I think it makes a lot of difference. The Pope seemed to be welcoming sinners into the Church and leading them to Christ. Gays are just sinners unless their hearts are hardened and they don't repent (which is the usual problem). He wasn't saying he is condoning Gay Priests leading the flock. That's a different thing all together. This is just another hit piece with the Pope helping them along with a loose comment. He will likely clarify that comment through others later.
Either they read the Catechism and understand the teaching of the Church or they don’t
God gives us free will.
Anyone can say they are Catholic.
It is up to the listener to discern.
When people want to believe what someone says it’s up to them.
But the Church says what it says.
a lot of Freepers won’t listen to a word I say when I speak about what the Church does say.
They enjoy hating what they perceive to be the Church.
“The Pope seemed to be welcoming. . .”
Here’s the problem. The Pope didn’t seem to be doing anything. It should read, ‘the paper tried to present the pope as. . .’
But Freepers have a deaf and blindness about the lack of sincerity of the paper when it comes to the Church.
They are so negative on the media when it comes to politics, it’s what this site is about.
Yet they enjoy believing these papers when it comes to the Church.
Hypocrisy