Posted on 10/19/2014 4:42:49 PM PDT by Gamecock
Pope Francis on Sunday closed an assembly of Catholic bishops that revealed deep divisions on how to reach out to homosexuals and divorced people, saying the Church should not be afraid of change and new challenges.
Francis, who has said he wants a more merciful and less rigid Church, made his comments in a sermon to some 70,000 people in St. Peter's Square for the ceremonial closing of a two-week assembly, known as a synod.
"God is not afraid of new things. That is why he is continuously surprising us, opening our hearts and guiding us in unexpected ways," he said.
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**God is not afraid of new things.**
Let’s see how the FRoman Catholic contingent spins, uhhh, I interprets this.
So what are faithful Catholics to do?
Call for reformation?
That would make them what then?
Quite a dilemma for them, isn’t it?
I always thought of the Church as akin to the Marines. There is an ethos that is to be unchanged. That is, regardless of what the surrounding culture is, the culture of the Church and the Marines are to remain the same.
Remarried divorced Catholics can receive communion whenever they want. Gay people are welcome at Mass. There isn’t a “state of grace” scanner in churches. What these forces want is to be told that sin is not sin and for all the faithful to concur.
This Pope scares me so much!
Nobody has any desire to spin anything. The pope was wrong and he was beaten back by the bishops — again debunking the protestant line that the pope has absolute power in the Church.
If the purpose of change is to return from evil to good, then change is laudable. If the purpose of change is to accept an adiaphoric cultural phenomenon for the sake of bringing people to Christ, then change is laudable. All other forms of change in the church are damnable, for all other forms of change are turning away from what God has ordained for our good.
Homosexuality is not new. God has already spoken and acted on the subject. We are the ones slow to learn.
Take it up with the Pope.
I don’t fear change, I fear sin.
The Pope does not know God.
God has anticipated “new things” since the beginning of time.
What a phony, trying to shoehorn the secular into the immutable word of God.
“God is not afraid of new things. That is why he is continuously surprising us, opening our hearts and guiding us in unexpected ways,”
In 60 years, we’ve gone from God the Omniscient, to God the Perpetually Surprised.
If He gets any smaller, we won’t need to kill God with scientism; we’ll be able to squash Him like an insect.
It depends on what the change is. If it is going against the word of God, then it is better to be afraid of that change, are remain on the traditional solid foundation.
The Lord does not change. Therefore is the Church decides to change, that change did not come from the Holy Spirit, but from the traditions of man.
..and remain on the traditional solid foundation.
There seems to be a clear pattern coming into focus with this Pope. This pattern strongly suggests that he really wants to pull the Catholic church in a liberal direction. He’s trying as witnessed on many occasions now, but you can tell he is being restrained. However, he appears determined.
God is not afraid of new things? Like, accepting the practice of homosexuality? God is unchanging.
I am not a Catholic, but I am really concerned about where this Pope seems to be pushing the Catholic church. My gut tells me that this guy is a leftist who, given enough space would like to see the Catholic church lurch to the left.
that’s a ridiculous statement
“God is not afraid of new things. That is why he is continuously surprising us, opening our hearts and guiding us in unexpected ways,”
I think God spoke and some didn’t want to hear, Truth won out over namby-pamby feel goodism.
He sounds like 0. 0 admires this pope. Nuff said.
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