Posted on 12/08/2021 4:12:49 PM PST by BusterDog
Lust is not the worst of the seven deadly sins, according to Pope Francis.
There are worse indiscretions than sex outside of marriage, the leader of the Catholic Church told reporters on the papal plane while en route from Greece to Italy on Monday, Reuters reported.
“Sins of the flesh are not the most serious,” the 84-year-old religious leader said regarding sex outside of marriage. Top transgressions instead include pride and hatred, according to Reuters.
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“Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?”
The Vatican could raise boatloads of money if they started selling indulgences again.
The goofball who wants ban wreaths on soldier graves is a better Christian than this dirtbag pope.
“Lust is not the worst of the seven deadly sins, according to Pope Francis.”
It is if you do it right.
Oh great, now that I’m too old to snag a hottie on the side.
Has this guy EVER read the Bible?
“Top transgressions instead include pride and hatred, according to Reuters.”
So Reuters is now in the business of ranking sins?
Q: Gettin’ any on the side?
A: It’s been so long I didn’t know they moved it.
Jimmuh Carter is much relieved.
Satan waits on this fraud’s arrival.
“Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?”
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When ever I see one of our priests out and about, say in a grocery store, I do that Donald Sutherland ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ pose, standing up straight, pointing finger, with mouth agape and I scream:
“You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek!”
They don’t like it, but it humors me.
Now wait a minute....I said a lot of Penance for a lot of years. How do I get that time back?
The analogy between this and the policing concept of “broken windows” is clear, small sins lead to bigger. Do I commit small sins? YES! But the knowledge that I do, keeps me from the road to damnation!
This Pope is a political tool, his theology trails his politics!
So apparently the cardinals that (s)elected pope a dope frank were actually the St. Louis Cardinals or the Arizona Cardinals. Back to Argentina and work with the 4th reich.
According to a 2018 article, Jorge Bergoglio hasn’t changed:
“... Indeed, Francis has made it clear that he considers sins of the flesh in general to be no big deal. As Sandro Magister reports, drawing from a book-interview with the secular journalist Dominique Wolton, one of the Pope’s favorite sounding boards for the various thoughts that occur to him, Francis “lift[ed] the veil on his real thought” concerning what Francis vulgarly characterizes as “condemning only the morality that is – pardon me – ‘below the belt.’” Quoth Pope Francis:
“Sins of the flesh are the lightest sins. Because the flesh is weak. The most dangerous sins are those of the spirit. I am talking about angelism: pride, vanity are sins of angelism. Priests have the temptation — not all, but many — of focusing on the sins of sexuality, what I call morality below the belt. But the more serious sins are elsewhere….”
Francis then cited what he considers a good example of the correct pastoral approach to sins “below the belt” — namely, to minimize them and avoid any details:
“I know a cardinal who is a good example. He confided to me, speaking of these things, that as soon as someone goes to him to talk about those sins below the belt, he immediately says: ‘I understand, let’s move on.’ He stops him, as if to say: ‘I understand, but let’s see if you have something more important. Do you pray? Are you seeking the Lord? Do you read the Gospel?’ He makes him understand that there are mistakes that are much more important than that. Yes, it is a sin, but… He says to him: ‘I understand’: And he moves on. On the opposite end there are some who when they receive the confession of a sin of this kind, ask: ‘How did you do it, and when did you do it, and how many times?’ And they make a ‘film’ in their head. But these are in need of a psychiatrist.”
The crisis in the Church has reached such depths that we have a Pope who praises confessors who do not want to hear about sins of the flesh and who mocks as mentally ill confessors who do their duty by inquiring into the number and gravity of such sins — the very sins of which Our Lady of Fatima warned: “More souls go to Hell because of sins of the flesh than for any other reason. ...”
https://fatima.org/news-views/fatima-perspectives-1270/
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“Sins of the flesh are not the most serious,”
I believe he would know about this, personally.
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