Posted on 02/05/2015 1:19:23 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Pope Francis believes it is fine for parents to smack their children as punishment for bad behaviour.
He made the remarks, which were condemned by campaigners for child protection, in front of thousands of people at his weekly general audience in St Peter’s Square during a homily about the responsibilities of fatherhood.
The Pope recalled a conversation he had had with a father, who told him that on occasion he hits his children if they have been naughty.
The Pope, smiling and miming the action of slapping a child on the bottom, said: “One time, I heard a father say, 'At times I have to hit my children a bit, but never in the face so as not to humiliate them.’
“That’s great. He had a sense of dignity. He should punish, do the right thing, and then move on,” he told around 7,000 people gathered in the Pope Paul VI Hall on Wednesday....
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Well I’m no pope. (Though I am one of a nation of priests.)
I certainly don’t claim to be the “Cardinal Archbishop of Rome” nor “superior to all other bishops” (as 2ndDivisionVet put it above).
But I can read the Bible as well as you, he, and Pope Francis can. And 2ndDivisionVet can read, understand, and quote Proverbs 13:24 as well as anybody. And he doesn’t claim to be a pope either.
Sorry, I quoted you in #21 but failed to include you in the ping.
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