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Sorry, he's been carrying on for months now....and his "social justice" mentality seems to be running amok, not the other way around. He's not THAT new to the media world that he doesn't know how to voice things in terms that it doesn't frighten conservative and traditional Catholics half to death.
I had bad vibes about this Pope from the git-go. I will pray that he straightens up and flies RIGHT.
Leni
I knew it....always suspected this...bye bye traditional Church....
12,000 werds and not a one about pedophile priests? Anything about turning over the child-bangers he’s hiding in the Fatican ? It’s easier to run a bigass religion if you practice what you preach. Mostly, I just want to hear Pope Frankie define “celibacy” again.
My mind opened up when a catholic church asked for my tax returns the first month we were there. ‘Haven’t been back since.
More merciful more welcoming.. They just need new ‘business’ rules.. Hmmm
Maybe the Vestal Virgins can start accepting EBT cards too.
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PS, I was raised Episcopalian, long since left ‘organized’ religion. ‘Bourne’ again. :-)
NARAL posted a “Thanks to Pope Francis from all pro-choice American women” on their Facebook page. I think I’m gonna be sick.
I don’t mean to be rude, but this guy sounds like the obama of the catholic world.
Sin is non-negotiable.
The pope’s message is disturbing. Some claim that his message is being misinterpreted by the liberal media.
I can read his words for myself. Maybe I’m slow, but his message IS disturbing.
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Praise GOD that LOVE is the Only Reality ..and GOD is LOVE.
Something Pope Francis seems to reflect quite Lovingly.
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Wonder how many folks had a knee-jerk reaction w/o hearing Pope Francis’s entire quote, w/o the spin.
>> CBS: [the Church’s] divisive rules about abortion, gays and contraception with the greater need to make it a merciful, more welcoming place for all.
ESAD to whomever said that.
I agree with what the man said
Change these fundamental positions of the church at your own risk.
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/06/04/elca-has-lost-half-a-million-members/
It means we need to bring the good news of the Gospel of Christ to ALL.
The old joke, “Is the Pope Catholic?” has become a real question.
seems like the “gay cabal” is running the pope in order to impose advocacy of hedonism.
What next? The Vatican Cathedral and Orgy Palace?
By no attention to the homosexual, abortion crazy media. They misconstrue every word the Pope says.
http://www.catholicleague.org/pope-comments-on-abortion-gays/
Bill Donohue comments on remarks by Pope Francis that were made last month in a three-part meeting in Rome with Catholic journalists; they were published today by America magazine:
The New York Times issued a “Breaking News Alert,” followed by a story, “Pope Bluntly Faults Church’s Focus on Gays and Abortion.” Here is what the pope said: “We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. This is not possible.” He also said, “when we speak about these issues, we have to talk about them in a context.”
The pope is right that single-issue Catholics need to rise above their immediate concerns. He did not say we should not address abortion or homosexuality; he simply said we cannot be absorbed by these issues. Both the left and the right should heed his message.
The article in the New York Times says U.S. bishops will feel the pinch of these remarks as they often appear “to make combating abortion, gay marriage and contraception their top public policy priorities.” This is inaccurate. It is not the bishops who have made these issues front and center—it is the Obama administration. It would be more accurate to say the pope would find fault with the bishops if they did not resist these state encroachments on the religious-liberty rights of Catholics.
The pope also said the Church should be a “home to all” and not a “small chapel.” He did not mean by these words, as the Times alert said, that these remarks were a criticism of focusing on “doctrine, orthodoxy and a limited agenda of moral teachings.” In the previous paragraph, he speaks about “the sanctity of the militant church.” In the same paragraph where he mentions “small chapel,” he cites the “negative behavior” of priests and nuns, saying their conduct is that of an “unfruitful bachelor” and a “spinster.” He did not say what the Times attributed to him.
The pope wants us to reject abortion, and to help women who have had one to find peace with God. He wants us to reject gay marriage, but not gays because they are gay. Kudos to Pope Francis.
The news media quoted him out of context. I am literally quivering with shock at that revelation.
Mat 6:24
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.