Posted on 11/10/2013 6:55:07 PM PST by ronnietherocket3
“It seems he’s focusing on bringing back the left that’s fallen away, but what about the conservatives?” said Ms. Kurt, a hospice community educator. “Even when it was discouraging working in pro-life, you always felt like Mother Teresa was on your side and the popes were encouraging you. Now I feel kind of thrown under the bus.”
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“This woman is complaining that he’s not stroking the healthy, like the Prodigal Son’s other brother.”
NAILED IT! I found this lady to be nothing more than a whiner.
NYT? Consider the source.
The conservative Catholics who I know like him.
You're speaking for God now?
Matt C. Abbott, a Catholic columnist in Chicago with Renew America, a politically conservative website, said in an interview on Friday, “I wish that he could have chosen some different words, expressed himself in a different way that wouldn’t have been so easily taken out of context.”I agree with Matt Abbott. Popes must be very clear. Women who are desperate, those who allow the killing of their own young in the first place, need to hear (especially from the pope), that there are ways their child can be saved. If it's too late for that, they need to hear (again, starting with the pope) that they in particular can be forgiven.
“For orthodox and conservative Catholics,” he said, “the last few months have been a roller-coaster ride.” He added in an email, “I’m not a big fan of roller coasters.”
Why do you ask that question?
BINGO! We have a WINNER!
He is preaching via both by words and actions.
You claim to know why God “called Pope Francis”.
You do not speak for the Almighty.
Your opinion and your opinon only. You are now on my mental ignore list.
Pope Franics is doing what his namesake, St. Francis hast said, “preach the gospel, and when possible, use words.”
You don't speak for God. Fact, not opinion.
......And I stand by what I say. Back on my mental ignore list.
You would've heard that from every Catholic and non-Catholic who hasn't been paying attention to the popes for the last umpteen years.
If those Catholics and non-Catholics HAD been paying attention they would have known that the Catholic Church hasn't changed FUNDAMENTALLY since its beginning.
Pope Benedict, Joseph Ratzinger, was very ill. Still is. He won't be around much longer. He WAS pope for eight years. Eighty-five is old for ANYone. He was born in 1927, a long time ago.
From the Internet: Pope Benedict XVI succeeded John Paul II as leader of the Catholic Church on 19 April 2005, and remained pope until his stunning resignation announcement in 2013. Born Joseph Ratzinger, the future pope was raised in Bavaria and entered seminary in 1939. His studies were interrupted in 1943 by forced service in Adolf Hitler's army, but he returned to seminary at the end of 1945.
Ratzinger was ordained in 1951 and spent much of his career as a theology professor at universities in Germany. In 1977 he was named Archbishop of Munich and Freising, and a few months later was elevated to cardinal. He became the Vatican's Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, charged with "safeguarding" church doctrine during the reign of John Paul II.
Ratzinger was known for sharing the Pope's strict adherence to traditional Catholic dogma. Ratzinger's stern and staunchly conservative approach earned him the whimsical nickname of Panzerkardinal, a reference to the World War II battle tank.
John Paul II died in April of 2005; Ratzinger presided at his funeral, and then was elected as the next pope on the second day of the traditional conclave of cardinals. Ratzinger took the papal name of Pope Benedict XVI. Eight years later, on 11 February 2013, he announced that he would resign as pope at the end of that month, saying he no longer had the strength of body and mind to "steer the boat of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel."
He was 85 years old when he made the announcement. Benedict XVI became the first pope to resign since Gregory XII, who stepped down in 1415 to help settle a civil war in the church.
Well put, despite your naysayers. Also, I agree with you 100%. Boo/hiss to the naysayers...a mild, but meant, epithet.
I'm a conservative Catholic and I do NOT feel left out. In fact, I was mildly surprised at the election of an Argentinian pope. Whodda thunk?
I DO rejoice in Pope Francis. I rejoice in all those holy men who chose to go into religious life and pursue it all their lives. I sure didn't want to go into the religious--too much to give up.
So what is he revolutionizing?
Not anything, really. He is just calling our attention to the poor.
Actually, I don't think Francis does believe this about abortion. After all, he recently said:
The most serious of the evils that afflict the world these days are youth unemployment and the loneliness of the old.
Why is that? Are Popes now omniscient?
I don’t know how any Christian would not know that the worst sin in the world today is abortion. You don’t have to be God to know this.
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