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Pope Francis Warns that the Catholic Church Is Too ‘Western’
Breitbart ^ | 09/19/2024 | Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

Posted on 09/19/2024 6:45:41 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

ROME — The Church is much more “alive” outside of the Western world, and pastors need to become less “Eurocentric” in their vision of Christianity, Pope Francis said Wednesday.

Reflecting upon his recently completed apostolic visit to Asia and Oceania, the pope expressed his concern that “in thinking of the Church, we are still too Eurocentric, or as they say, ‘Western.’”

In reality, “the Church is much bigger, much bigger than Rome and Europe, much bigger!” he said, addressing the crowds gathered in Saint Peter’s Square for his weekly general audience.

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Commie Francis at it again
1 posted on 09/19/2024 6:45:41 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Francis and Vatican II made the Church Presbyterian.


2 posted on 09/19/2024 6:47:30 AM PDT by chopperk (are)
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Maybe Francis should make more consideration of the African Bishops who are against embracing perversion and have no beef with the Vetus Ordo.


3 posted on 09/19/2024 6:50:32 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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West is Best
4 posted on 09/19/2024 6:51:46 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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So what would you like it to be Frankie? A little more hip-hop.


5 posted on 09/19/2024 6:51:59 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If the DNC would spay and neuter their supporters we wouldn't need all these abortions.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I kinda like westerns.


6 posted on 09/19/2024 6:52:44 AM PDT by xp38
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Francis is ignorant of everything, including history, outside of his Jesuit indoctrination.


7 posted on 09/19/2024 6:54:53 AM PDT by Wuli
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Was always kinda partial to Roy Rogers actually. I really like those sequined shirts.


8 posted on 09/19/2024 6:57:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If it were up to poop Francis alone,

he would have urged all Catholics to convert to Muslims.

The poop is not Catholic.


9 posted on 09/19/2024 6:59:59 AM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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Maybe Francis should make more consideration of the African Bishops who are against embracing perversion and have no beef with the Vetus Ordo.

Bingo! Unfortunately the same with some Protestant "churches". For a long time in the Methodists it was mainly the African bishops and the North Alabama conference who were against the creeping hedonism in their general conference. At least the good guys seem to be winning there (with most of the local Methodist churches leaving the hedonist denomination).

Perhaps this is what's needed for the RCC.

10 posted on 09/19/2024 7:00:10 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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His holyness needs to think about that statement. How many centuries were the Catholic church, the Jesuits, and conquistadors over here... with the priests and missionaries knee deep in the enslavement and breeding with the native population, working to extract the riches from the western hemisphere in the hopes they would forget their heritage?

Francis is another stain on history.


11 posted on 09/19/2024 7:02:09 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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He actually defined the secular church..........saying What I encountered, “was a lively, dynamic Church inclined to harmonize diversity, and at the same time has the largest Muslim presence in the world.”


12 posted on 09/19/2024 7:06:07 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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Yet is ‘western’ because of Christianity. He’s basically saying the fruits of Christianity are bad. From the Pope. SMH.


13 posted on 09/19/2024 7:07:58 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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need to become less “Eurocentric”

This is warmed over 1990's High School propaganda.

14 posted on 09/19/2024 7:08:31 AM PDT by G Larry (Its RACIST to impose slave wages on LEGAL immigrants and minorities by importing cheap ILLEGAL labor)
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To: Dr. Sivana

The Philippine Church is likewise much more conservative.


15 posted on 09/19/2024 7:10:35 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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More concerned about whether that religion is Biblical — and ready to apologize for its murder and torture of protestants.


16 posted on 09/19/2024 7:11:38 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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He wants it to be more Chinese.


17 posted on 09/19/2024 7:12:01 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I agree with the Pope on this but not for the reasons he states. The deviant “Western Civilization” has entered the Church and is forcing the Classical understanding of Western Civilization (Christendom) out. We would be wise to listen to the African Catholic Church which is so much more Orthodox than what we have now especially in America.


18 posted on 09/19/2024 7:13:22 AM PDT by frogjerk
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The Church loses its moral credibility when its leaders hobnob with the elites and when it ceases being counter cultural when the culture embraces neo pagan, hedonistic decadence. Christ did not condone sin.


19 posted on 09/19/2024 7:13:33 AM PDT by allendale
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Hey Francis, look over here! “Souls” Ever hear of those?!


20 posted on 09/19/2024 7:16:00 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The world is driven by envy, not greed.)
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