Posted on 12/07/2016 7:29:48 AM PST by MNDude
Media that focus on scandals and spread fake news to smear politicians risk becoming like people who have a morbid fascination with excrement, Pope Francis said in an interview published on Wednesday.
Francis told the Belgian Catholic weekly "Tertio" that spreading disinformation was "probably the greatest damage that the media can do" and using communications for this rather than to educate the public amounted to a sin.
Using precise psychological terms, he said scandal-mongering media risked falling prey to coprophilia, or arousal from excrement, and consumers of these media risked coprophagia, or eating excrement.
The Argentine-born pontiff excused himself for using such terms in order to get his point across while answering a question about the correct use of the media.
"I think the media have to be very clear, very transparent, and not fall into - no offence intended - the sickness of coprophilia, that is, always wanting to cover scandals, covering nasty things, even if they are true," he said.
"And since people have a tendency towards the sickness of coprophagia, a lot of damage can be done."
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PAGING LAME STREAM TRUMP SMEARING MEDIA
Wonder what the Pope thinks of Merkel’s burka ban idea?
Pizza stories that he is all worried about?
Liberal bias can cause just as much harm by NOT reporting stories such as Clinton’s corruption, Muslim assaults on non-Muslims, hate crimes against whites.
Report buried Trump-related ‘hate crimes’ against white kids
http://nypost.com/2016/12/05/report-buried-trump-related-hate-crimes-against-white-kids/
German State Media Defends Not Reporting Girl Raped and Murdered by ‘Refugee’
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/12/06/german-state-broadcaster-fails-report-migrant-rape-murder/
The Pope is so hard left, but is he hard left because he is pro-Islam or is he hard left because he is pro-Communism (and if it is both which one is more important to him)... So, I wonder what the Pope thinks of Merkel’s burka ban idea?
Bozo the Clown would have made a better Pope.
Sick. What’s the impeachment process for a pope? As legalistic as that bunch is there HAS to be a procedure for removal of a pope who is obviously deranged.
Your visit to Cuba was all about fake news.
“So, I wonder what the Pope thinks of Merkel’s burka ban idea?”
I think he understands the burka will only be banned on the ninth Tuesday of each month containing an x and during a solar eclipse.
Things that make you go hmmmmm.
This Pope picked the wrong profession.
He should have been a leftist politicians in a third world country.
Then he should quit spreading the gloBull warming propaganda.
That is an eye opener, isn’t it. the DC power circles and their pedophile ring is finding it harder to stay in the shadows..... and he starts freaking out. Make you wonder...
I had hope for this Pope initially. He is an absolute disgrace.
They should hire this *sshloe at CNN. Fake News. What an idiot.
This latest statement is downright creepy.
Or is the Pope hard left just because he wants to side with left politicians. Like people picking a football to cheer on.
For someone who ‘doesn’t watch TV’, he sure seems to know a great deal about DNC talking points.
Top story has been about ‘fake’ pizza shop.. what else could he mean?
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